Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stir without great argument...
...great prestige in their own lands, each freshly and widely traveled in the era of personal diplomacy. It was this evident new worldliness in Russia's Khrushchev that led the West to hope that he would bring to the summit a desire to avoid crises rather than to stir them...
Over drinks in the Carnegie Hall bar it is still possible to stir a lively argument as to whether Toscanini was really as great as all that. Now a fascinating new record titled Memorial Tribute to Arturo Toscanini proves once again that he was. His critics often maintain that he was off base in the German classical repertory, and that he tried to turn Beethoven into Verdi...
...grasps what countless other men have sensed: you can never really leave home. Novelist Richter has written a dozen books (The Trees, The Fields, The Town) in which the American grain stands out like a pledge of authenticity. His latest is guaranteed, with all its flecks of sentimentality, to stir any reader who has ever tried to break away from his home town...
...week's end, Nikita took off for Moscow. He had tried to stir up trouble between France and its allies-and had failed. He had repeatedly revealed that behind his folksy mask lay an arrogant brutality. But it must be counted a plus for Moscow that Nikita's uninhibited peasant vitality somehow seemed to reduce "the Soviet menace" to human dimensions. Reflecting on his performance, many Frenchmen, rightly or wrongly, were now inclined to accept one of Khrushchev's own favorite sayings about himself and Russia's Communists: "A little courage-we do not have horns...