Word: warne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cold war ... is nothing less than a war against God. We are changing our very nature into a thing of evil. The blood of our fellow men and the guilt of the ages will be upon our hands if we do not warn men to return to the reconciling realities of the cross. What the world needs is not more military hardware, but more food, more love, more hope, more trade, more schools and medical care...
...yacht while Filipino officers and men were being trained to handle her. Then newsmen were suddenly invited to explore the Lapu Lapu "from end to end." Explained a Filipino official to reporters: "The Lapu Lapu is not a presidential yacht. It is a navy ship." An aide tried to warn him: "If you do not give the press the entire truth, they will ferret it out." "But," replied the first official, "if I give the wrong facts who will be blamed?" At that point a reporter interrupted them: "If this is a navy ship, why are the chairs marked...
...This appears to be an increasing problem," warn the doctors, "since twice the number were observed at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the decade 1948 to 1957 as in the preceding decade." But the worst may be yet to come. No one knows how many healthy people with histories of such treatment may later develop malignancies. The interval for the appearance of cancer after treatment ranged in the study from five to 55 years...
Died. George Antheil, 58, U.S. composer; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. In the '205, George Antheil of Trenton, N.J. became America's Bad Boy of Music (the title of his 1945 autobiography) when he wrote Ballet Mécanique "to warn the age ... of the simultaneous beauty and danger of its own unconscious mechanistic philosophy," scored it for eight pianos and a player piano, bass drums, xylophones, rattles, whistles, electric bells and an airplane propeller. This made him a special favorite of Paris intellectuals, where he knew Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, and Mrs. James Joyce...
...Million Emergencies. Telephone lore is rich with the stories of heroic men and women who have used the telephone to save the lives of others in answering 12 million emergency calls every year. In 1908 Operator .Sally Rooke stayed at her switchboard to warn the people of Folsom, N.Mex. of a flash flood until she herself was swept to death by the waters. A Chicago couple who reached a phone just before being overcome by leaking gas gave the operator who summoned help an oft-voiced tribute: "We wish to thank you for saving our lives...