Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course, he has not been campaigning before the electorate. And as for delegates, they were clearly not convinced that the Vice President's rivals were more deserving of the nomination. Senator Eugene McCarthy's strategy was to force floor fights to stir up torpid delegates, but he was not optimistic about his chances. With characteristic detachment, he allowed: "I'm like the messenger who comes bearing the bad news. In the olden days they used to put him to death. I don't think they'll go quite that far in Chicago." Senator George McGovern...
...week he was even ready for his first major swing through the South. He managed to draw some friendly crowds while evoking no visible hostility. Yet his stop in a black neighborhood in Atlanta, like an earlier visit to Pittsburgh's Negro Hill district, displayed again his failure to stir black enthusiasm. Asked why black Democrats should support him instead of Humphrey, McCarthy replied: "I haven't really made much of an argument that they should, except that if we pursue the war, there's not enough money to take care of poverty programs in this country." A Negro offered...
CZECHOSLOVAKIA, the little country that is trying the difficult and perhaps impossible task of combining Communism with freedom, is continuing to stir up resentment and alarm in its Communist neighbors. Russia and the more orthodox Communist states of Eastern Europe, in turn, are putting enormous pressure on the Czechoslovaks to restrain their liberating zeal. It is a conflict that could lead to tragedy...
...building for hay storage and pigs). Then they invited 400 guests, including Northern Ireland's Prime Minister Terence O'Neill, to a gala housewarming. The natives were delighted. Long envious of the outpouring of American sentimentality for the boozy, poetic republic to the south and of the stir created whenever a Kennedy came to call at Wexford, the citizens of Ulster could at last display a superfamily of their...
...oppression. If so, within these limits we sometimes achieved with each other a freedom that was close to love. I remember, anyway, church suppers and outings, and, later, after I left the church, rent and waistline parties where rage and sorrow sat in the darkness and did not stir, and we ate and drank and talked and laughed and danced and forgot all about...