Word: warne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reasons for this damage was finally passed by censors: the gallant little ships (destroyers, destroyer escorts, LCSs) which formed the "picket line" 25 to 50 miles above the main anchorage had been severely mauled. By staying out front, the little ships with thin hulls had been able to warn the big transports and gunnery ships of approaching Jap planes. But they became the first Okinawan targets in the sights of the Jap suicide planes, . and they took the greatest concentrated damage, plus more than 1,000 casualties...
...University of Southern California last year, T.N.E. members presumed to warn fraternity-shunning veterans of World War II not to seek campus office or promote their own social society, "Trovets." Promptly U.S.C.'s able President Rufus B. von KleinSmid began an enthusiastic campaign of extermination. Last week the battle reached a climax...
...story concerns an eager young cavalryman who rides three days and nights to warn the Czarina of a conspiracy against her life. Although her placid chancellor, whose only function seems to be to ferret out such plots and counter-plots, has this one well in hand, Catherine is glad to see the breathless soldier; she decides he will look good in a creamy white uniform and promotes him to the rank of general...
Back in Paris that afternoon Ed Kennedy broke his word. He first made some attempt to warn SHAEF (but not his colleagues) of what he was up to. He tried to reach General Allen by telephone, but was told that the General was too busy. According to Kennedy, he then warned Allen's aide, who said: go ahead and try to get it out, Ed; it's impossible. After also serving warning, just for good measure, on Lieut. Colonel Richard Merrick, chief U.S. press censor, Kennedy sneaked his story to London by telephone...
...Every screwball with thick lenses and a long haircut is setting up shop as an expert on the returning veteran. If you wife or sweetheart runs behind a good, solid oak table when you finally go bounding in the front door, don't say we didn't warn...