Word: warne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...apparent from this survey that Harvard students must decide between now and next Tuesday what the fate of the country will be. Experienced experts warn, however, not to conclude that the balance of power lies, as is so often the case, with the undecided "don't know" group of voters. True, if every one of them joined one side or the other, one of the two parties conceivably could be victorious in the election...
...experts warn that the combination this indicated would give the winning faction only 53% of the votes, which is within the 5% margin of error which experience shows must be allowed in polls of this sort. It is possible, in these circumstances, that neither party will win. (It is assumed that the "don't care" and "don't like either" group will naturally vote for minor parties...
...meetings, padded out the votes, added to the clamor. (Yugoslavia, for example, sounded more intransigent than the Kremlin on the subject of Trieste.) Russia, which had not liked the idea of a 21-nation conference in the first place, had used it as a rostrum from which to warn the world against Anglo-U.S. domination, and to accuse the U.S. of profiting at the expense of war-torn Europe. But if temperamental optimists had been disappointed in Paris to date, Jimmy Byrnes's insistence that the small nations be called in had accomplished something: the record had been...
...Killers (Mark Hellinger-Universal), as Ernest Hemingway wrote it, was a short story and a simple one. It told how a pair of professional assassins talked tough to some people in a lunch wagon. Horrified young Nick Adams (Hemingway as a boy) managed to warn their quarry, the Swede, but the Swede just stayed on his bed, knowing he could not escape. Within a few crisp pages of dialogue, Hemingway created a masterpiece in terror-by-suggestion...
...State Department and Congress, and delighted the Chinese, President Truman appointed Leighton Stuart U.S. Ambassador to China. Dr. Stuart will not supersede Marshall, who will remain in China indefinitely as U.S. Special Envoy, nor will he be Marshall's leg man. He will complement the General, suggest policy, warn, recommend...