Word: warne
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the RSVP on a dinner invitation, GASPers warn putative guests: NSP -meaning, in Jacobeanese, "no stinking puffumigation." Even cab drivers lecture passengers. Says a sign in a Manhattan taxi: YOUR RIGHT TO SMOKE ENDS WHERE MY NOSE BEGINS...
...mako by putting 16-in. stuffed sharks on diners' tables, along with a card announcing JAWS: FOR A JAWFUL REVENGE. A fashionable Indian restaurant in Manhattan, Nirvana on Rooftop, draws attention to its shark curry by keeping three small sharks in a tank. It does not have to warn customers against squeezing the charmers...
Even for the best-endowed Third and Fourth World states, development will be a long, slow process. "We warn those who today demand a fast redistribution of wealth not to be impatient," declared West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt in a recent New York speech. "In Europe, the process of industrialization has so far lasted about 200 years." Modern methods of agriculture, in fact, advanced through Europe in the 19th century at the snail's pace of only a few miles yearly...
...other way that platypuses might maintain territories, he says, is with the complicated array of scents that the male secretes from the area around his neck. The scents could be used to mark trees or rocks to warn off other platypuses...
...trouble is first recorded by sensitive, computerized instruments in the control room of the nuclear power plant. They warn that temperatures inside the reactor are rising fast toward a danger point - so fast that only one explanation is possible: somehow, the main pipes carrying water to the reactor core have broken or clogged. As white-coated technicians look on helplessly, the back-up water system also fails. Deprived of the coolant that controls its temperature, the reactor begins melting in its own heat. Then the machine and its fuel collapse into a molten mass that explosively converts the coolant water...