Word: stirringly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trek away from the mountain, over what Nelson calls a "white-hot desert" of ash. They soon joined up with a 60-year-old man. The three kept up their spirits by singing bawdy songs. In late afternoon they heard helicopters overhead and waved some of their clothes to stir up a dust cloud large enough to attract the pilot's attention. They were rescued, and choppers soon carried out Balch and Thomas as well...
Translated into English as Time of Desecration, the book arrives like an immigrant with a pocketful of soft currency. It is difficult to imagine how an obscenity case about a piece of Italian fiction will cause a stir in the U.S., where hard-core pornography can be bought openly in Mom-and-Pop candy stores. Furthermore, as Moravia readers might suspect, there is nothing pornographic about the novel. It is, in fact, highly moral and antierotic. The author has always treated unaffectionate sex as symptomatic of public disintegration and spiritual malaise. The more convoluted the sex, the more disturbed...
...psych and soap-opera counseling stir the air waves...
...mission was on. The commander received his orders. The soldiers and airmen were watching his face. He turned and jammed his fist into the air with his thumb up. Shouts shattered the stillness. It was a brief burst. There were no bands and no U.S. flags. The next stir was the big turbo props coming to life-then the transports lifting off into tragedy...
...similar spot on Republican John Anderson's independent ticket. Obviously such a remark must have given CBS fits, putting in jeopardy in the midst of the campaign its star anchorman's reputation for neutrality. Cronkite, off on a sailing holiday, said he had been "misinterpreted." The stir makes a point: as the man the country trusts most to bring it the news, Cronkite seems to have a calm and sensible response to events. What if he were put in charge of them...