Word: warned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Forces of Change. Before it fanned out across the country, most of the political furor swirled around one man: Ezra Taft Benson, Secretary of Agriculture. He took it calmly. Seated firmly behind his Washington desk, listening to politicians warn him that his policies are going to lose the election, Secretary Benson glanced often at a motto, in small type, pasted to the marble base of his pen and pencil set, where only he could see it. "Oh Lord," it says, "give us men with a mandate higher than the ballot...
...delegation paid a special visit to Livonia to warn the Hays' new neighbors that the Hays needed watching because they were just the type who would sell a home to Negroes...
...detail the MacKinnons did not support feminine folklore. The last five days of the cycle, often marked by "premenstrual blues," are dangerous but not so bad, they concluded, as the preceding week. Their recommendations: warn high-strung women and those with chronic diseases to 1) take better care of themselves, 2) get more rest during the second half of the cycle, 3) have major operations only in the first phase...
Terrorist Lo had to warn his comrades, as recently as last July, against "boundless magnanimity." He regaled the National People's Congress with horror stories of the resisters still around, then dramatically asked: "Deputies, can any one of you be tolerant with these heinous and inhuman counterrevolutionaries? Can any one who has heard of such horrible conspiracies still comfort himself with the feeling that counter-revolutionaries are nothing but 'a few small fish that cannot create waves?' " Back in 1951, when Lo's army of terrorists set to work, the fish were many and the waves...
Last week, speaking to the annual White House Conference of Mayors, Charlie Wilson jokingly told his audience: "Talking about your possible trip through the Pentagon, I would like to warn you about one thing-if any of you get lost you're liable to find that you've got a job." The point Wilson was trying to make was that he, like the rest of the Cabinet, has had great difficulty in keeping able assistants from ditching Government service for private business. But Engine Charlie's little joke drew reporters' attention to another point...