Word: cautionings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British and Dominion correspond ents in North Africa last week got a letter from war-hard, polite General Sir Harold Alexander, General Eisenhower's Commander of Land Forces. It contained: 1) words of caution; 2) a hint of the coming Allied offensive. It said...
...report adds: "We caution that the contents of this report should not be taken too literally, for after all the compilers still have much to learn about human nature...
...needle's nearness to the spinal column. Dr. George W. Kosmak of Manhattan, editor of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, said he had no doubt of the method's scientific value, "but it is one of those extremely dangerous things that need the utmost caution...
There are many other pieces under such titles as Beat Me, Post-Impressionist Daddy, Caution-Soft Prose Ahead, Psst, Partner, Your Peristalsis is Showing. They handle, with the expertness required for delivering a two-headed baby, the aching half-lunacies which turn up as a normal part of U.S. life. They use one of the rangiest and most microscopically exact vocabularies in modern letters-a vocabulary drawn entirely from those ancient, current and emergent clichés of which Flaubert and Joyce were both collectors and which are as diagnostic of a civilization as any ten theses on the Zeitgeist...
Wadi to Wadi. As for Rommel, he continued west, hopping from wadi to wadi along the serrated Mediterranean coast. At week's end he was less than 200 miles east of Tripoli, at Wadi Zemzem. The main British forces were 50 miles east, moving with care and caution...