Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Turks denied the accusation, privately suggested that Kassem had made the charges only to cover up his inability to crush the Kurdish rebellion, was using them as a means to stir up new public support for his shaky government. But in a pointed warning to the Iraqis, the Turks last week ordered their ambassador in Baghdad back to Turkey "to complete his vacation period" and announced that the annual military maneuvers of the Turkish army would take place next month. Where? Along the Iraqi frontier, where a little sabre rattling might help the diplomats...
...wind. If there is a large crop of seeds, the weevils flourish along with their food supply. If there are more weevils than plant seeds, the little bugs simply die off. Thus nature maintains a delicate balance that allows neither the puncture weed nor its weevil to stir up a population explosion...
...working mothers hold their jobs out of economic necessity. Most of the rest are furiously engaged in the race to keep up with the Müllers. with second cars, appliances and travel. One thing leads to another: appliances make housework more of a bore; travel and entertainment stir interests far from the Küche. According to a recent study, four out of five formerly docile hausfraus consider their lot unhappy, and most of them because they are "fed up with housework." With the divorce rate up and the birth rate down, many a West German male is musing...
...every day, Fidel Castro's strident Radio Habana Cuba fills the hemisphere's airwaves with Communist propaganda in an effort to stir a rebellion here, provoke a riot there, create chaos everywhere. Last week one of his neighbors had had enough. In Washington, Foreign Minister Jose Antonio Bonilla Atiles of the Dominican Republic went before the Council of the Organization of American States to lodge an official protest that Radio Habana was "attempting to destroy−by inciting to riot and murder−our beginning democracy...
Iserloh's arguments have roused German Protestant historians and set off a stir of headlines in the German press. Sighed one confused Rhineland layman: "Next thing they'll be claiming that Jan Hus wasn't burned at the stake...