Word: warne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little more than twenty years ago, which set forth the gospel of pan-Germanism and the German faith in aggression. Books were martyred by those who thought that ideas could be destroyed by burning the paper upon which they had been set down. There were books which tried to warn us of the enemy. There were books written in hot desert sun and under naval gunfire which reported this war as no war had ever been reported before...
...story: Catherine the Great (Miss Bankhead), with the help of a cooney chancellor (Charles Coburn), is governing Russia after a fashion, but not firmly enough to prevent conspiracies against her life. A wild-eyed young soldier (William Eythe) rides three days & nights to warn her of one. Catherine, more impressed by his bright pink condition at the end of the ride than by his loyalty, rigs him out in an ice-cream uniform, promotes him through the military ceiling, moistens him thoroughly with champagne, subjects him to a dazzling blitzkrieg of carnivorous kisses, and turns him into a hopelessly bemused...
...Give every pilot in the air constant, automatic reports of his own position and those of approaching planes, warn him of his approach to mountains and other potential collision dangers...
...through that night, all next day, Infantryman Edwards fought to stay conscious. He knew that unless he did, he and anyone who attempted to move him before he could warn them would be blown to pieces. He smoked some cigarets which the Germans had overlooked, and waited. Hours past midnight, corpsmen came. Soldier Edwards had just enough strength left to warn them. They gingerly cut the wires and, after 70 excruciating hours, got him to safety...
...warn the curious trespasser against the buffalo's antisocial attitude, he had already painted fence signs bearing the legend: "Certain Death Inside...