Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...necessarily narowly based. Social Credit has been fortunate enough to add a strong rural Quebec-oriented wing to the party, for the Western French have been especially cool to Caouette, claiming that he has no understanding of the French situation on the Prairies, and accusing him of trying to stir up Anglo-French trouble where it does not exist. The NDP spread the 19 seats it won in the last election over only three provinces, and 16 of their victories were in Ontario and British Columbia. Their support is limited to regional pockets, mainly of an urban-industrial nature...
...sense of grandeur wounded by a Brazilian ultimatum to clear French lobster boats out of Brazilian waters, he dispatched a warship to put an end to such nonsense. Brazil responded by canceling sailors' shore leaves, ordering units of its own fleet to sea. There was an uneasy stir in foreign ministries in Paris and Rio de Janeiro; among Brazilians there was talk of breaking diplomatic relations, even of asking the U.S. to invoke the Monroe Doctrine. Headlined Rio's O Dia: WAR IS IMMINENT...
Rather than stir up Congress, which in recent years has been increasingly reluctant to subsidize farmers, the Administration is banking on a wheat farmers' referendum coming up late this spring. In that vote the farmers will be given a Hobson's choice between 1) increased Government controls on what they may plant, or 2) doing without Government supports. By this method the Administration hopes to pay more for wheat but get less of it, to reduce production by 150 million bushels. The Government is already stockpiling 1.2 billion bushels of the stuff...
Solomons declared that this is "a question not only of free speech, but of the rights of the citizens of the city to the proper use of the school property." He warned that "a meeting of this kind might stir up such excitement that the property of the City would be in danger...
...past 14 years have died in a senseless and uncoordinated fury that no one seems able to end. The butchery is so much a part of national life that many Colombians have learned to ignore it. Last week a powerful new book, La Violencia en Colombia, was creating a stir in Bogotá. It attempts to understand the killing, measure its costs, and bring Colombians face-to-face with the bloody, bitter consequences...