Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bevan, after a major abdominal operation, is down to a scant 140 Ibs., and living in seclusion on his Buckinghamshire farm. With Nye out of action, socialist left-wingers rose in open revolt, and the party leadership split in warring factions. Instead of stumping the country like Gladstone to stir up mass support for a new Opposition policy, Gaitskell closeted himself with his intellectual friends, and when he belatedly sallied out late last month, it was to set forth his views at a few university meetings in his most pursed-lipped "if-I-may-venture-to-say-so" manner...
...Ecuador, street riots killed five and injured 33 when ex-President José Maria Velasco Ibarra arrived in Quito to stir up his supporters and start his campaign there for the presidential election June...
Although the U.A.R. legation and the Cuban embassy are in the same block on the same street, Tabei and Cabrera are never seen talking privately, give no evidence that they coordinate a common campaign to stir up Panama's anti-U.S. nationalists. But last week Nasser's Deputy Foreign Minister Hussein Zulficar Sabri was a guest of honor in Fidel Castro's Cuba. A sure topic for talk: Panama and the U.S. Canal Zone...
...sort of provisional Palestine regime in the area now part of Jordan. The Palestine refugee movement, if noisy, has been ineffectual since the Arabs were beaten by Israel in 1949. Nasser wants to purge it of discredited oldtimers and replace them with a group of young militants who would stir up trouble as the rebel F.L.N. leaders do for Algeria. They would be backed by Cairo and run from Cairo. King Hussein was thus in for another showdown with Nasser. At such times he usually sends for his old troubleshooter, hard-nosed Samir Rifai, to take over as Premier...
...duty in his new job "to get the membership off its goddam duff, and doing more about pushing the chamber's activities." An inveterate speechmaker (125 a year), he lost no time last week in starting on a 200,000-mile hard-sell air trip to stir up chamber members...