Word: warne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...onward & upward, in a sort of economic Indian rope trick, as profits-and production-went from bad to worse in the first half of the year (see chart). So many little people rushed in to buy that the Stock Exchange spent $750,000 in newspaper and magazine ads to warn the lambs away from the wolves. On May 29, the Dow-Jones industrial averages reached 212.5, then turned queasy. But it was not till Sept. 3 that the collapse came. In five hysterical hours, 2,900,000 shares were traded as the averages plummeted 10.51 points, biggest one-day drop...
...that a Swiss plane asked Americans to stop, lest they hit survivors or another plane. Those on the glacier had an even greater worry. As planes swooped low to buzz the Dakota, they heard ominous rumbles in the glacier; they feared that engine vibrations were widening the fissures. To warn planes away, the word "FINI" was trudged out in the snow (see cut). Confused observers thought it might be a bad American spelling of a French word (finis) indicating that a) they had given up hope, were "finished"; or b) that they had enough supplies...
...King and his coach had gone, the House of Commons got down to what was really on its mind: the "revolt" [strictly verbal] of Labor backbenchers, led by Richard Grossman and Tom Driberg, who think Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin's policy too anti-Russian. Said Driberg: "I must warn the Foreign Secretary that . . . the people of this country will certainly not follow him to war now or in five years' time against Soviet Russia in partnership with the barbaric thugs of Detroit or the narrow imperialists of Washington or Wall Street...
...bulging muscled shoulders warn...
...document .in which they promise that "all the children, of both sexes, who may be born of our Marriage, shall be baptized in the Catholic Church, and shall be carefully brought up in the knowledge and practice of the Catholic Religion." Said York: "I feel it necessary to warn Anglicans against signing this document, and to ask them to do their utmost to dissuade members of our Church from doing so. It means that Anglican fathers or mothers married to Roman Catholics are deprived of the right to influence the spiritual and religious upbringing of their children. It means disloyalty...