Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only one more lunar landing and three Skylab missions scheduled, NASA has been desperately looking for new manned space enterprises that will be popular with the public-and earn financial support from Congress. Thus by agreeing to join with their erstwhile rivals in a flight that is bound to stir the imaginations of both U.S. and Soviet citizens, the Russians may well have given new life to the U.S. manned space program. The Soviets also stand to gain: cooperation should save them money and give them access to American know-how in electronics, computer technology and other areas in which...
...because of his stand on issues like the Viet Nam War, McGovern has only rarely been plagued by trouble with dissidents, and when it happens it causes more laughter than concern. Outside a longshoremen's headquarters where McGovern spoke, a brassy San Francisco redhead caused something of a stir when she paraded on the sidewalk with a sign urging
...Roman Catholic friar, who were convicted of collaborating with Croatian nationalists abroad. There are probably no more than 1,000 active political agitators among the 235,000 Croats who live and work outside their homeland, principally in labor-short West Germany and Sweden, but those 1,000 manage to stir up more trouble than almost any other nation's migres. They are divided into rival groups, variously espousing antiCommunist, anti-Tito and anti-Serbian views, but sharing a common derivation from the Ustase, the notorious wartime fascist government of Croatia...
Liebman predicted that the question of integrating the suburbs would stir the most controversy in his plank on "Cities, Towns and Suburbs," although he said there is general agreement that the Nixon Administration has shortchanged the cities...
Ward's subsequent arrest in the Westover antiwar action last week caused quite a stir: The New York Times ran the text of a speech he made explaining his participation in the sit-in on its op-ed page, and college professors and administrators around the country reacted with curious "Hmmm's" and sympathetic "Oh really...