Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gover, of course, is far from being the first writer to lament the prurient curiosity that sex crimes stir in the anonymous public. If his shocking book contained only this one macabre dimension, he might be dismissed as another literary sensationalist trying to deplore his cheesecake and have...
...United Nations team investigated whether or not North Borneo and Sarawak really wanted to join. Hoping to influence opinion against federation, Sukarno began moving paratroopers into Indonesian Borneo along his 900-mile-long border with the two territories. Some Indonesian guerrillas even sneaked through the jungles into Sarawak to stir up trouble; they were relentlessly hunted down by tough little British army Gurkhas, aided by half-naked Iban tribesmen, who hung up at least one Indonesian head in the rafters of their longhouses...
...another voice that could yet stir up a hornet's nest was that of Washington's Democratic Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, a New Frontiersman and an influential member of the Armed Services Committee. Although he will probably vote to ratify the treaty, Jackson remained worried about the possibility of a Soviet doublecross...
Trypanis, Bywater and Southeby Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature at Oxford, yesterday said there was "a very good response" to his course, and called the experiment a definite success. The enthusiastic reacton to Comp Lit S-174, Trypanis hopes, will stir further interest in seeking funds for a permament chair...
Fears & Illusions. All these changes stir deep fears and emotions. Negroes, demanding more than token integration, have lately attacked de facto segregation by street-marching protests in Los Angeles and Philadelphia, "study-ins" at the white schools of Englewood, N.J., sit-ins at the boards of education of New York and Chicago. Whites envision their neighborhood schools being flooded with poorly prepared Negro pupils, or their own children being forced to "integrate" Negro slum schools. A feeling of "discrimination against the majority" has sparked reactions like that of white parents in Montclair, N.J., who filed a federal suit under...