Next, she stirs in fennel and carrots before adding turnips, sunchokes and potatoes.

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The picture moves on a steady, powerful flow of ideas and emotions, and it stirs in us a sense of discovery.

NEWYORKER: Black Robe

Dumping them in, she stirs them for a bit, turns the heat down, goes back to the sink to turn off the water, and lets the lettuce sit in the sink to drain.

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Mies van der Rohe's early work in Berlin shouts avant-garde Europe just as the Chrysler Building in New York, which was completed in 1930, is an elegant reminder of the glitzy jazz age of the 1920s and Horace Walpole's 18th-century Thames-side villa evokes the eclectic sophistication of the countrified lifestyle that still stirs nostalgia in many a would-be squire's heart.

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Shakespeare still stirs the heart in a way that Terence Rattigan never did.

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This stirs alarm above all in Santa Cruz, where big landholdings underpin both entrepreneurial agriculture and feudal privilege.

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Russia and Canada, the two biggest Arctic countries by area, have encouraged this fear: the Arctic stirs fierce nationalist sentiment in both.

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Built by the Russians in the 18th Century, the town still stirs passion about who it really belongs to.

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Raw milk stirs the hedonism of food lovers in a special way.

NEWYORKER: Raw Deal

Then Mr Putin stirs them up again, accusing in all seriousness the Bush administration of staging the war to boost John McCain's election chances.

ECONOMIST: The West and Russia

Written in 1913 by Katharine Lee Bates with music composed by church organist, Samuel A. Ward, it stirs the soul.

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