Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attention was focused on the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles, the Administration was feeling the numbness of its approaching end, and the President was taking a long vacation in Newport, R.I.-in short, it was a good week for Nikita Khrushchev to stir up as much trouble as he could. He hurled at the U.S. a series of accusations, insults, threats and challenges that in an earlier day, when weapons were less destructive and threats more lethal, might have been enough to set off a war. In rapid succession, Khrushchev...
Startling as this pronouncement sounded to Western ears, it created little stir among Iranians. For ever since the Shahanshah ousted weepy Mohammed Mossadegh in 1953, he has ruled with an unabashed if benevolent absolutism. To set an example in land reform, he distributed thousands of royal acres to the peasants, set in train such long range developments as dams, roads and irrigation, and has lavished much of the oil revenues of Iran in a buildup of the 200,000-man army...
...object of this controversy is a slight, fringe-bearded alto saxophonist named Ornette Coleman. No jazzman has created such a stir since Charlie Parker started packing them in at the Three Deuces on 52nd Street 15 years ago. Last week, insiders of the cool world were flocking to a shabby cave in Manhattan...
...operated for its owner, a Cuban labor union. (The rebels told Nacional Manager William Land he would have to start paying for his room.) The hotels have been losing $100,000 a month since U.S. tourists began staying away. Castro accused the American management of not doing enough to stir up U.S. tourist trade...
...complaint. To the New York Society of Security Analysts he said darkly: "Somebody came to me several months ago and said, 'If you don't get out of Briggs, one of the family is married to a Senator from Michigan, and we're going to stir up things in Washington.' " Michigan's Democratic Senator Philip A. Hart, married to a daughter of the firm's founder, heatedly denounced Evans' innuendo...