Word: warne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last time that I shall attend your convention." A long-drawn "Nooo" burst from the crowd. But a subtle change came over the hall. The audience reacted less like a crowd listening to a political speech than a big family affectionately assembled to hear a patriarch warn them, as old men will, about the pitfalls of a world they thought they knew better than...
Georgia's Richard Russell, claiming 200-300 delegates, thinks that Ike's nomination has strengthened his hand. Russell backers warn that the Democrats had better pay attention to Russell and be careful of the civil-rights plank lest they lose the South to Ike. With Russell, the Democrats can hold the South, though they might lose almost everything else...
...recovered from the bad-case of personal pique over Washington's failure to warn him of the Yalu bombings. "I do not remember any occasion when a more candid and manly course has been taken by a prominent public man," he said of Acheson's explanation...
...case in point. "If we choose to ignore the public-school system as an avenue of religious instruction so as to 'keep the Catholics out,' then in effect we allow secular theologies to become the source of meaning and motivation for the public-school system." And, warn the editors of Social Action, "we have very few social principles which can be taught in their full meaning without reference to a religious tradition...
...wing of the bridge and asked the captain if he had the conn," i.e., if the captain was taking over responsibility for the ship's course. "He answered, 'I have the conn.' " After the vessel turned to the left, the O.O.D. went so far as to warn the skipper that the Wasp was closing perilously fast. Tierney, he testified, did not reply, and, with the Wasp 1,240 yards away, ordered "left standard rudder" a second time...