Word: warne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Night Into Day. Commanding General Nga Beu, a man of action, galloped away from the enemy to warn Lhasa of the danger, leaving his men behind. Within a few hours most of his troops, their weapons scattered, were pounding down the road after him. None of them had fired a shot. Neither had the Chinese...
...fireman gave chase, but the train hit a downgrade, soon outdistanced him. Driver Playle rushed to the telephone to warn stations down the line. There were passengers waiting at Noel Park, three-quarters of a mile away, but the little train puffed past them. Half a mile farther it whipped through West Green. In the next mile it picked up more speed, but just outside Seven Sisters a steep upgrade slowed it down. It puffed into Seven Sisters at eight miles an hour...
...Brash Russell Birdwell, pressagent, bought a full-page ad in the Hollywood Reporter to clobber Britain's Socialist Prime Minister Clement Attlee in plain view of impressionable movie moguls. "He conies-this socialist of a beggar government . . . with an umbrella borrowed from Chamberlain to warn the President that we must withdraw from Korea-to hell with our brave kids . . . and to invite butchers of our wounded boys to seats at the U.N. . . . America will go it alone!" The British consul-general in Los Angeles wrote a letter in reply to suggest politely that Birdwell keep cool...
...they explained they were just saying how easy it would be to outsmart the Secret Service.) While the President relaxed in his steam-heated box during the game (see SPORT), a special patrol of Air Force F-51s kept watch overhead, once zipped past a hovering light plane to warn it away from the big bowl...
When Douglas MacArthur went to Formosa in August, the dismay of the U.S. State Department was audible all the way to Mao's palace. When MacArthur decided to warn publicly against the loss of Formosa, against "those who in the past propagandized . . . defeatism and appeasement in the Pacific," he was silenced by presidential command. By last week the net result of the U.S. action on Formosa had been to suspend the Nationalist sea-air blockade and thereby to open the ports of Red China for copper, oil and armaments from the West...