Word: warned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...action was like slipping a raincoat on the economy to prepare for the deluge of cutbacks and contract cancellations to come. The big job of building the ark was up to Congress. In galloping haste, War Mobilizer James F. Byrnes hustled up Cap itol Hill last week to warn Congress that by the closing months of the year "many persons may be unemployed." He demanded quick action on legislation for contract termination, manpower regulations, unemployment insurance...
Well do the walls remember how she went directly to the visitors gallery. As soon as the students became aware of her identity, her first words were greeted with cheers and jeers. She tried to warn them against cigarette-smoking teachers. Then she came to the subject of the intoxicating items on the menu. "Boys! Don't eat that infernal stuff. Its poison," she cried...
...summer, Mrs. Cromwell had been ill at Shangrila, her lush Hawaiian estate with an orchid-hung solarium and a $20,000 hydraulically elevated diving board. When Mrs. Cromwell's secretary learned that Politician Cromwell planned to rush to his wife's bedside, she telephoned from Hawaii to warn him that he would not be welcome -that he would, in fact, be locked out. "I don't care if she wants me to come or not,' Jimmy cried, "I'll come even if it's only for the sake of public appearance. Doesn...
...heterogeneous personnel of this outpost collect weather data and send it to Allied forecasters in Italy; they warn and guide Allied fighters and fighter-bombers raiding the Dalmatian coast; they operate a launch which goes out in any weather to pick up Allied flyers downed...
...failure of elegant U.S. Ambassador Pierre Boal, who was inclined to see most things through the eyes of Bolivia's tin-mine owners, to warn Washington of the Bolivian revolution (TIME...