Word: warne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Suddenly, out of the calling dark, a burst of bullets smashed into the outpost. Five men crumbled and died. The sixth, badly wounded, lurched down the hill to warn Captain Sadek's garrison below. He never made...
...impossible to check every advertiser. One of the best ways to end bait advertising was used by Denver's Better Business Bureau. It hired a man with a sandwich board ("Don't get hooked by phony wholesale offers") to parade outside the advertiser's store and warn customers not to go in. It worked: the dealer closed...
...rough stuff was often provoked by Communists, many of them brought in specially from the East zone. The Reds also imported French Communist Jacques Duclos to warn German audiences against German militarism and to promise, in the name of France, that the Paris accords would never be ratified. But though the Communists talked furiously, it was the massive Socialist campaign that was doing the most harm. In town after town, the SPD was whipping up German youths to riot against rearmament, circulating petitions and questionnaires whose loaded questions (gist: Do you want unity or do you want war?) led Konrad...
...counter-espionage headquarters in Paris, lettering maps (he was a commercial artist), and chatted daily with the Germans (harmlessly, he says). He soon learned that the Germans had succeeded in capturing Allied agents' radio sets and cutting them into the British network, but he was never able to warn London. After the invasion he was packed off to Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Starr admits that because he never managed to alert his superiors, he failed to win his double game; his bosses hint that because he talked to the Germans he lost it. But the disconcerting fact is that Starr...
Rushing to the telephone, he called two friends, and asked them to be his seconds. At 2 a.m., Premier Mendeés-France heard the news and called Servan-Schreiber to warn him: "Faure is so mad he wants to kill...