Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Instrument. Ormandy began playing at three on a one-eighth-size violin, at age four caused a stir in local music circles when he leaped out of his seat at a concert and cried: "Papa! That violinist played an F sharp! It should be an F natural!" At five, he became the youngest student ever accepted at Hungary's Royal Academy of Music. At 21, Ormandy came to the U.S. for a concert tour, but was stranded when the promoters went bankrupt. Literally down to his last nickel, he joined the fiddle section of Manhattan's Capitol Theater...
...Communist correspondents-and then only out of duty. "The heady days are over," notes a resident in Havana. "All you hear of Castro these days is in the newspapers. He's suddenly started behaving like a bureaucrat. We've been told he often doesn't stir from his desk...
...Neither the automatic nor the manual controls for the oxygen tank heater would function. And getting at the heater itself was out of the question. Located in the adapter section, it was inaccessible to the crew. The astronauts flicked switches off and on again and again, trying somehow to stir the system into life. They maneuvered the spacecraft around so chat its blunt end, which housed the fuel-cell system, would get the full impact of the sun's rays. But the sun was no help. By this time the astronauts had turned off the radar, radio, computer...
...whether we're going to face the facts of life or stick our heads in the damned sand." Apart from caution or complacency, the chief pressure against change comes from the A.B.A.'s 1908 canons of ethics (now being studied for revision), which condemn all efforts to stir up law business and flatly ban "lay intermediaries" -non-lawyers who aid in the choice of a lawyer. Beyond that, Canon 35 forbids a company lawyer to represent employees "in respect to their individual affairs." Canon 47 prohibits "the unauthorized practice of law by any lay agency, personal or corporate...
Though some of their adventures stir excitement, 8¾% never quite makes up its mind whether to be a spoof or a spine-tingler. But just before the giddy lovers emplane for England, Morley offers a verdict about the plot. He assures everyone that the sought-after secret document was only a scrap of paper, and the whole business just a routine bit of counterespionage. Precisely...