Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...entering the second month of a fast he had sworn to keep unto death, or until the Indian government grants his demand for a Punjabi Suba-a separate, Sikh-dominated state. Few fasts since the days of Mahatma Gandhi's Empire-baiting hunger strikes had caused such a stir in India...
...stocked with refreshments-for Susskind is a genial host who wants everybody to be relaxed. Sometimes, indeed, the guests have become too relaxed. There was the memorable evening last winter when the London Observer's Patrick O'Donovan dissolved in an Irish mist; he caused such a stir with his groans, hiccups and toasts that Susskind had him removed from view during a hasty message from the sponsor. Then there was the night when good old reliable Brendan Behan cut loose with a rendition of the largely unquotable song, Lady Chatterley's Lover...
...fragmented, for that was the way things were in the chaotic months when World War II ended and every day was marked by hundreds of hurried decisions that affected the peace. The U.S. approach to the potential problems of postwar Germany left the Russians in a position to stir up trouble at will. But there are no grounds for questioning the West's legal rights...
...undeclared war, and Lacerda is a formidable antagonist. He returned to Rio and announced that Justice Minister Horta had invited him to join a Quadros plot to grab more authority for himself by sending Brazil's holdover Congress into permanent recess. As Lacerda's charges began to stir a fuss, Quadros dramatically resigned. It was seven years and a day from the resignation and suicide of Brazilian Strongman Getúlio Vargas, another President who had incurred Lacerda's wrath...
...Acker Bilk, king of the trad men, is a chap with a name that has probably caused Charles Dickens to stir in his grave, tap his foot and smile. A 32-year-old former Somersetshire blacksmith. Bilk acquired his skills on the clarinet in an army guardhouse after he fell asleep on sentry duty. Wearing bowler hats and striped waistcoats Acker Bilk and his Paramount Jazz Band are half New Orleans and half Somerset cider, thumping out numbers like Run Come See Jerusalem and Ory's Creole Trombone, while Bilk makes Louis Armstrong-style comments. At last year...