Word: warne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anathema wherewith Joshua cursed Jericho, with the curse which Elisha laid upon the children, and with all the curses which are written in the Law. Cursed be he by day, and cursed be he by night. Cursed be he in sleeping, and cursed be he in waking . . . And we warn you, there shall no man speak to him, no man write to him nor show any kindness to him . . . nor come within four cubits of him, nor read any paper composed or written...
...different kinds of petroleum moving through pipelines. When a pipeline is finished pumping one type of oil and wants to shift to another without interrupting the flow, some antimony-I 24 is put at the beginning of the new batch. The antimony's rays, detected by suitable instruments, warn the pipeline operator at the other end that it is time to switch valves. Commissioner Campbell estimates that antimony I 24, now used in most pipelines, saves $500,000 a year...
...Frank," ad-libbed Arthur Godfrey to Tenor Frank Parker on Godfrey's morning radio and TV show one day last week, "how many times do you think you ought to warn a man that if he's drunk on the job you'll fire him?" Replied Parker, "I think he should get a couple of warnings, and then that would be it.'' Said Godfrey: "I fired a man yesterday that I told the last time, which was the seventh time, that I wouldn't take it again...
...Confidence. In Jefferson City, Tenn., after failing to win the G.O.P. nomination for sheriff, Farmer Briscoe Holt advertised in the Jefferson County Standard: "I want to thank my 43 friends . . . for casting their votes for me, and to the rest . . . I warn you that I am now going armed with a sawed-off shotgun, because a man that has only 43 friends in a county as big as Jefferson is definitely in need of extra protection...
...Canio in Pagliacci moans: "To have to act, act, when my brain whirls in an agony of madness! . . . Change into grins your sobs and suffering, change into a leer your sighs and your tears." Dennis King as Rigoletto shouts: "Unarmed though I be, I'll kill you, I warn you!" But the familiar music (in familiar performances by Rise Stevens, Jussi Bjoerling, Leonard Warren) restores the order of things. Most acceptable acting job is done by Deborah Kerr, who renders the ingenuous roles of Mimi in La Boheme and Cio-Cio-San in Madame Butterfly with winning simplicity before...