Word: stirringly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Since then the customers have become even more independent-minded about their costumes, but the journalistic arbiters are still critically important. "The press creates interest," said Aldo Pinto, whose wife, Mariuccia Mandelli, designs the Krizia collection. "When Women's Wear talks repeatedly about a designer, it creates a stir...
...Lear and Haley would only remember their roots, they should soon bring on a new Edith Bunker or Chicken George to stir Palmerstown...
...done more to stir doubts than Columbia University Psychologist Herbert Terrace in his work with little Nim (full name: Nim Chimpsky, a play on the name of Linguist Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a staunch proponent of the idea that language ability is biologically unique to humans). The object of Terrace's experiment was to prove Chomsky wrong -to show that creatures other than man could, indeed, conquer syntax and link words into sentences, however simple...
Iran's revolution enters a new, secular phase as Ayatullah Khomeini and the mullahs are pushed aside. There is a power struggle-possibly even civil war-between various factions. Leftists, perhaps self-avowed Marxists, come out on top, but the unrest continues. Separatist Kurds stir up more trouble than ever from bases in Iraq and in NATO ally Turkey. Muslim militants declare a holy war on the godless Marxists and take to the hills. An embattled government in Tehran appeals to Moscow for help, and the Soviet Union accuses NATO of interfering in Iran's internal affairs. Authorities...
When Tai and Randy skated out onto the ice Friday night with the other pairs for their warmups prior to the pairs short-program competition, the crowd gave a pleasant stir of anticipation. The U.S. pair struck a pose, glided around the rink and then went into a sit-spin. Randy fell out of it. He got up and brushed off the ice. They skated over to Coach John Nicks, talked anxiously, came back and tried the sit-spin again. This time, Randy stayed up, but he had to put a hand down to keep from tumbling...