Word: warne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conference in Tunis, big, stoop-shouldered M'hammed Yazid, "Minister of Information" in the rebels' provisional government, stepped forward. "We regret to declare." he announced, "that the provisional government of the Algerian Republic does not presently see any prospect for peace in Algeria." Yazid went on to warn off Standard Oil of New Jersey, which had just negotiated oil-exploration rights in the Algerian Sahara with the French. "Our people are not tied by deals concluded with the enemy." warned Yazid, "and consider them an act of hostility toward the Algerian people...
...balanced budget, result of a determined, top-to-bottom Administration drive, calls for expenditures of $77 billion. That is $5.2 billion more than the amount that, in 1957, moved then-Secretary of the Treasury George M. Humphrey to warn of "a depression that will curl your hair." And it is $3.1 billion more than the President's original budget for the current fiscal year, in which the U.S. is running a gaudy $12.9 billion into the red. In its modest surplus, the 1960 budget picks up the pre-Sputnik, pre-recession trend of Eisenhower budgets...
...King could not see this fine distinction. Fortnight ago he broadcast a message to the rebels, and Moroccan air force planes showered reprints of the speech on the mountain slopes. Using the term "mutiny" and quoting from the Koran to warn of "cruel punishment" to come, the King gave the dissidents 48 hours to come down from the hills and surrender...
...Competition in academic life," says Riesman, a lawyer before he became a sociologist, "has an especially biting quality ... I would certainly warn anyone not to enter teaching if he plans to do so because he thinks the people in it are so nice.'' All Riesman's observations deal with professors in the humanities and the social sciences; quirkily, he remarks that "I retain what may be an erroneous view that the natural scientists are less contentious, more generous, and, except for physicists and geneticists, less intellectual."
Apologists for abstract painting like to warn against reading too much into such pictures. They are supposed to be seen "purely as paintings." This is like asking people not to daydream at concerts. Whether it be "pure" or merely obscure, whether "pioneering" or just playing, abstract-expressionism is something to dream and wonder over...