Word: warne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...horse, is of the delicate opinion that "women are like socks; ya gotta change 'em often." Miss Arthur, who has marriage in her eye, is sure that "any fella that can love a horse can love a girl." Charles Winninger, Wayne's elderly sidekick, tries to warn her that she is "barking up the wrong cowboy." It turns out that he is wrong...
...plane will have 'eyes' that help guide it to its target, or warn and plot the course of interceptor aircraft. It will carry bombs of an entirely different design. It may mount heavy-caliber cannon of an entirely new principle of operation. Fighter planes will have advanced almost beyond recognition in form and in the combat equipment they carry." What made these predictions news this week was their author: not Major de Seversky, writing for the aviation press, but General H. H. ("Hap") Arnold, commanding general of the Army Air Forces, in a special article for Army Ordnance...
...have been fear of the shadow of Great Powers that led Moshe Shertok of Palestine's Jewish Agency to warn: "It would be wrong to consider the Jews incapable of deeds of despair...
Kelly might be ambushed. We tried to warn him, but our walkie-talkie couldn't pick him up. The Colonel was very worried. He conferred with Captain Bernard Kotin, an artillery observer, about the possibility of hitting the enemy without hitting our own men. "At least we could burn 'em out of that white house if you could land a shell on top there," said the Colonel to Kotin. "Pretty narrow target, though," he added. Kotin decided to try a smoke shell first and gave the range...
...irregular flying box formation, not unlike the classic battle phalanx. The highest planes were cascading mile-long vapor trails. Over the Channel, the clouds disappeared. Not a boat rippled the Channel's surface. Far out on either side, Spitfires raced along, occasionally tipping their wings to warn the eager fortress gunners not to fire on them...