Word: warned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...latter is not quite so easy as 47 year-old Baker makes out. The audience is encouraged to heckle Baker and the contestant. If the audience thinks the contestant is not equal to, say, the $32 question, they warn him to pocket his money and leave, chanting: "You'll be sorry." Such challenges Baker must meet with his unrehearsed patter out of years of experience (beginning in Philadelphia, much of it in vaudeville...
Airman Sinclair had come back to warn his fellow members that they had better legislate now to provide for the fighting men against the day that fighting ceases. He had specific complaints: 1) that the allowances now planned for demobilized men in training for civilian jobs are insufficient; 2) that the Canadian system of discharge pay (one month) is unfair and insufficient. The Flight Lieutenant spoke for the ranks...
...after operation, 3) help schizophrenic and other insane patients, probably by improving the health of nerve fibers, 4) fight rheumatism ("against acute arthritis it is a quick and certain cure"), hardening of the arteries and several other chronic diseases, 5) speed healing of wounds, burns, frostbite injuries. But they warn that ACS is harmful in certain heart diseases...
Captain F. G. Neild and Flight Lieut. C. M. Mackenzie, who reported the case in the British Medical Journal, believe that the paratrooper survived because he landed on one foot and fell sideways-the landing technique which U.S. experts now warn against. Nevertheless, this prevented the full force of his landing from being transmitted through his legs and spine to the base of his skull...
...hold a million men at bay, more was needed than the elements. A strong factor in the stalemate was the stubborn and skilled German resistance. Last week, Moscow's press found it necessary to warn exuberant optimists that the Wehrmacht was still a tremendously powerful force. It still held a sizable portion of the lower Dnieper's right bank. It was still able-and willing-to throw fresh men and tanks into the battle to hold or gain an important point...