Word: stirringly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same amount of good luck and bad luck in the world. If one person doesn't get the bad luck, somebody else will have to get it in their place. (etc., etc.) We can never alter the ratio of good to evil. All we can do is keep things stirred up so neither good nor evil solidifies. That's when things get scary. Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises...
...part of the crew of this onetime school bus that the Indiana department of public instruction has dressed up as a roving Read-A-Rama, or bookmobile. The rig has rolled into leafy Claypool (pop. 464), the smallest of 102 cities and towns on its route, to stir up interest in reading by giving some books away...
...there are at least 1,500 in operation in the 50 states. The Indiana department of public instruction still keeps two bookmobiles on the road each summer. This summer they distributed some 40,000 books, embracing 800 titles, at a cost of $40,000. The intent is mainly to stir a love of reading in children. According to Rosemary Hurst, coordinator of the Indiana Read-A-Rama program, it works fine. Children heckle teachers to tell "when the readmobile is coming." After a visit, local librarians report an upsurge of business...
...adds twists of its own. The residences are not isolated but located in neighborhoods. MARRinc looks for houses or apartments that can accommodate only five or so people. Explains Brown: "The limit is how many people can get around the dining-room table. The number is big enough to stir up a lot of different attitudes. It is also small enough to keep people from burying their feelings...
While visiting South Africa, Walls caused a stir with some frank talk to the press. He told a BBC interviewer tie had sent British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher a message in March requesting that Mugabe's election be invalidated because of widespread intimidation by ZANU supporters. Walls also gave an ambivalent answer to a question about reports that he had considered a military coup in the event of an inconclusive election...