Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...White House blames Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bill Fulbright for prematurely leaking the ambassadorial appointments lists to the New York Times. Fulbright was an early Kennedy choice for Secretary of State before he was shot down as a segregationist. One result of the leak was to stir up a newspaper ruckus over controversial appointments before approval had been received from the foreign ministries. Principal victim: the Kennedy family's close Palm Beach friend. ex-Cuban Ambassador Earl Smith, who was politely blackballed by the Swiss government (TIME, March...
Fireside chats alone will not stir the country, but they will certainly do more than the TV press conferences. Faced with a decline of American influence abroad, the recession at home, and the necessity to knead a complacent Congress, Kennedy's only chance for carrying through any of his ambitious programs is persuasion. If he cannot or will not scare Americans into believing that the recession is a crisis, he can at least explain to them why some action is needed--which is more than the present TV format permits...
...picketers ran into sharp, vocal hostility in the attempt to stir up sympathy for their cause. Marching down Massachusetts Avenue towards the Square, they met with cries from Wigglesworth Hall of "Go back to Moscow...
...they might move back into the area. The University would have to have a care for neighborhood groupings, would have to ensure a finance plan to allow present residents to return and to accommodate students, and would undoubtedly have to carry on a publicity campaign to combat the political stir that always crops up in the face of radical change...
Virile Language. Across the English Channel, the French press, conquering an early disposition to water enthusiasm with Gallic doubt, has taken to Kennedy and his French-descended wife. "His virile language," said Roger Massip of Le Figaro, "is designed to stir up the energies of a great nation which is threatened by the excesses of her prosperity." Said the normally skeptical Le Monde: "There is every reason to believe that [Kennedy diplomacy] will result in spectacular developments in the near future...