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Word: stirs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their patrols. Reason: they hope that the bitches, when in heat, will lure South Korea's male patrol dogs away from their handlers-thus winning canine defections to the North. This petty bit of harassment shows just how far the Communist North Koreans are willing to go to stir up trouble on the border. They have increased their subversion and infiltration attempts by 40% this year, and in recent weeks have continued to step up the pace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Korea: A Case of Frustration | 6/2/1967 | See Source »

What They Seek. As Critic Edmund Wilson puts it, Lowell has achieved a poetic career on the old 19th century scale. Of the score or so of American poets who now stir the campuses, he is easily the most admired. Not that the suspicious young readily take to heroes, literary or otherwise, or are very clear about what they seek in poetry. Says Mount Holyoke Poet and History Professor Peter Viereck: students "crave the ever more shocking and ever more new. They are looking more for emotional release than purely artistic merit." Verse for edification or moral uplift; he adds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poets: The Second Chance | 6/2/1967 | See Source »

Despite modest successes in a number of areas, the war on poverty has created such a stir that it faces tough going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poverty: The Other War | 5/19/1967 | See Source »

Shouting "on to the Cliffe," about 50 ran to the Cambridge Common where they paused to regroup. Deciding that they didn't have enough rioters, they returned to the Yard to stir up more interest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Try to Riot But Police Intervene | 5/15/1967 | See Source »

...does not stir for the stranger. He has enough to treat his friends and, more important, one doesn't go scuttling all over the room every time the door opens. After a time he is by the stranger's side, not questioning, waiting to be informed. He is informed, and whatever the stranger proclaims himself to be will be magnified in the retelling, for even Vic gains by association with important...

Author: By John D. Reed and Charles F. Sabel, S | Title: THE NORTH END | 5/12/1967 | See Source »

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