Word: stirs
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...former National Security Adviser and now his Secretary of the Interior. Clark, 52, had a similar career path in California: Governor Reagan made him chief of staff, then nominated him to the California Supreme Court. As a prospective U.S. Supreme Court Justice, however, Clark is likely to stir opposition from Congress and the organized bar. His legal credentials are suspect: he dropped out of law school, passed the bar exam only on his second try, and was so inexperienced as a California judge that he had to rely heavily on his staff for legal expertise...
...critical success for his magazine articles and books (which Arlen slyly depicts as exhaustive looks at narrow topics, resembling less his own work than that of his New Yorker colleague John McPhee); he is too constrained, too inward looking, to write in a way that could stir emotions and reach a mass audience. Tom believes that his happiness and security with his new wife will shield him from his father's belittling ways. But in the course of an awkward, misbegotten summer holiday, the captivating old egotist outrides his son on horseback, humiliates him with the neighbors...
Pleasure cruises were once reserved for people with plenty of money and plenty of time. No longer. The success of The Love Boat on TV helped stir demand for ocean voyages, and cruise companies are enlarging their fleets. Since 1981 the industry has launched seven new ships, bringing the number of luxury liners serving the U.S. to about 75. In addition, many vessels have been rebuilt to increase their capacity. This expansion has set off a fierce competition for passengers, driving down the price of a brief cruise to within the means of most pocketbooks...
...seemed as if the Pontiff had decided to avoid major political or doctrinal controversy. Instead, on his 23rd foreign tour, the first papal visit ever to Canada, John Paul concentrated on his forte: warming the crowds who come to see him, then using the glow he inspires to stir reflection...
...privately? 'If you burn your immediate past there is nothing left but ashes which are all very well for those heads that like nothing better than to be sprinkled with ashes,' she wrote in the middle of the McCarthy era. She felt far too keenly the stir of the revolutionary idea to be able to abandon...