Word: stirringly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Greensboro, N.C. Bermanzohn is a member of a leftist group called the Communist Workers Party, which until late last year had been known as the Workers Viewpoint Organization. Though W.V.O. members had been trying to organize textile workers, most of whom are black, in and around Greensboro, the first stir of trouble came last July in China Grove, N.C., when two W.V.O. workers invaded a Klan rally and burned a Confederate flag. When the W.V.O. organized a "Death to the Klan" rally and dared their enemies to appear, their enemies...
...southern neighbors, from Turkey to Pakistan, the Kremlin leadership is treading carefully lest it stir up restlessness among its own Muslims...
...elaborated competitiveness into the cultural imperative that it is . The obsession with setting records is finally inextricable from the human determination to rise above the past." Consider, in closing, another Trippett observation, "The act of dying," he says, "is one of the very few human activities that do not stir up competitive fever among people...
Every other day somebody does something that has never been done before. Or else repeats some improbable feat-only faster, deeper, higher, with different equipment or at a different age. The act of dying is one of the very few human activities that do not stir up competitive fever among people. "After Sir Edmund Hillary," says Boston Globe Columnist M.R. Montgomery, "you can climb Everest on a pogo stick without attracting envy or admiration." But, in fact, once the notion of climbing a mountain by pogo stick has been conceived, it would not be surprising if somebody...
...especially in Western Europe and the U.S., since the liturgical changes of Vatican II. The Pope is clearly concerned about practices that may weaken the sacredness and ritual strength of the ancient Mass, or blur the distinction between clergy and laity. The new Vatican statement, though, is sure to stir some resistance...