Word: warned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Well, by last winter, warn't nary a blade left. Guess they forgot bout them dust storms, 'cause the topsoil just upped and blowed away. Couldn't even raise dandelions. So, me 'n the missus packed our duds on the Ford and headed out for Californy. Reard there'd be work out there for us Picked oranges for a livin' 'n me a Harvard Man. Yep majored in Fine Arts, Bout a couple o' weeks ago. Government man came 'round, told us about rescedin' 'n contour plowin'. We, me 'n the missus, decided we might as well go on back...
...Constant Drain. The Army, OWI reported, has already reached its top strength of 7,700,000 (including more than 2,385,000 in the Air Forces). But OWI was quick to warn the U.S. public that that does not mean the U.S.'s manpower problem will be solved when the Navy finally fleshes itself out to full strength. On top strength there will always be a constant drain...
Whistling in Brooklyn (M.G.M.). Whistle in Brooklyn, and sooner or later a Dodger will turn up. They all turn up toward the climax of this melocomic fracas, in which Red Skelton clowns around in House-of-David-style false whiskers in order to warn a police inspector that the trusted friend sitting next him at a ball game is a homicidal maniac. The story is strenuously pasted together for laughs, but some of its comic assault & battery hits the funnybone, while Red Skelton, his idiotic beard and imbecilic lack of interest in the game he is supposed to pitch, sometimes...
...sense of constant strangeness under which the hard-working colonials lived. The barrel of pitch on Beacon Hill in Boston, to be lighted in case of attack, was a far more meaningful landmark than the fire-alarm boxes on contemporary corners-though the menace it was intended to warn against may have been less than city dwellers face today. The animals were strange and exotic, the trees and plants were rare, the hazards of the quixotic weather were untested, and the Indians, savage as the Japanese, were at once converts, enemies, neighbors, field workers, barbarians, trail blazers, and victims. From...
...played a recording of an air raid so loud that he could not hear his own voice, but the patient heard Salter's questions and gave the right answers (read from his lip movements). Salter's patients took to this game so eagerly that he had to warn them : he found that they hypnotized themselves to deafness while walking in the street and failed to hear approaching cars...