Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gleaming white uwe, a kind of nightshirt decorated with lace, Nigeria's delegate made quite a sight on the rostrum of the U.N. General Assembly. And his words made quite a stir among the assembled delegates. "I am losing confidence in the great powers," cried chubby Jaja Wachuku, lambasting both East and West for failing to end their quarrels. "They are climbing from the pedestal of greatness to the pedestal of insanity. We expect leadership from them; they give us destruction. We expect wisdom from them; they give us lack of knowledge. We expect objectivity from them; they present...
Judging by the applause, the high point in Saturday's football game against Colgate was the announcement that the soccer team had beaten Amherst that morning, 4 to 2. An even greater stir followed the news that Chris Ohiri had scored all four goals, bringing his total to 14 in the first three games...
Until the present century, it was often a rather risky business for an American artist to do a nude. When the painter John Vanderlyn exhibited an inoffensive Ariadne in New York in 1815, his great rival John Trumbull was able to stir up enough scandalized protests almost to ruin poor Vanderlyn forever. When William Page tried to exhibit his 1862 Venus in Boston, there was such an outcry that the painting was whisked from public view. At the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where on Ladies' Day the Greek statues were draped, the great Thomas Eakins posed...
Only two of the independent candidates for the Council, Daniel J. Hayes and Manuel Rogers, appear at this time to be contenders. Rogers ran unsuccessfully in the last election, while Hayes, outspokenly anti-Harvard, has already created a stir by claiming that many students will try to vote illegally in the city election...
...picked up strength from circulation promotions and from some of the best talent in the business-much of it lured from the World's newsroom-but Hearst had larger excitement in mind. Eying the Spanish colony of Cuba, where revolt had been smoldering for years, Hearst decided to stir...