Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leap up on a drum and stomp with both feet. His band is by far the least disciplined in jazz, and as a result his sidemen feel free to swing privately. Sometimes the players seem to be digging their own private scene, but on a good night they stir up a roomful of creative excitement. Hamp's arrangements are the raunchiest in the business, but when the band plays Flyin' Home, its audience seems content to forget all that jazz about jazz being...
...result if he were to get more votes for Vice President than Johnson for President, Bobby sought out White House Aide Kenny O'Donnell, asked if the President wanted him to make a statement denying vice-presidential ambitions. The answer came back: no, such a statement would only stir things up even more...
...Biologist Yukitaka Kanayama of Tokyo's Hosei University, the shimmering beauty of live rainbow trout is something to stir the scientific imagination. It pained Kanayama to think that most of the rainbow infants raised in Japan's hatcheries are no sooner released in a river than they are gobbled up by bigger fish, including their own elders. He decided to send rainbow babies to survival school...
...doctors' dissent was described by one observer as "a shot fired when the battle is over." Yet it did stir some reluctant rethinking. Stockholm's prestigious daily, Expressen, which bitterly attacked the petition, concluded that "the uneasiness about these problems must not be dismissed as a bagatelle. It is now time for emotional disarmament and calm self-analysis...
...Moreover, said Che, "we are undergoing serious tension in a number of factories because equipment is rapidly going to pieces." The only sources for parts are "cannibal" shops, which strip spares from worn-out equipment and graft them onto salvageable machines. In some cases not even cannibalism will stir the equipment back to life. Guevara complained angrily about the "absence of labor discipline." But he also admitted that there was not much to work for these days. "The people want more things," he said. "They are constantly asking for food, shoes, clothing-all the consumer goods necessary for life...