Word: warned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...neighboring republics, he was mobbed by women in the streets. After quarreling with his actress-wife, Carmen Zozoya, Lara met Movie Star María Felix just before a party in honor of her first big picture. "Please come, Señor Lara," cooed María. "But I warn you that we have no piano. Just a guitar." Next day he sent her a snow-white piano and a card inscribed: "With all my respect to beauty, Agustin Lara." They were married...
...days before reform. Some Cambridge mayors who controlled municipal trucking used this power to pressure Councillors most of whom held trucking contracts with the city for snow removal or refuse collection. One mayor was known to call up a majority of the 15 Councillors before a Council session and warn them that unless they voted for a specific measure, they would lose their lucrative contracts. They generally agreed with his point of view...
...better of the pair, because the audience is never aware it is hearing poetry, not prose. The play opens with the discovery of the Greek horse outside the walls of Troy. The Trojan populous, wanting to believe the horse is a good omen, refuses to heed the few who warn against...
...years passed, Marc repeated his "joke" again and again until some of his friends got bored with it. He even made arrangements with the undertaker for his burial in the family vault. The fish merchant took him for a ride on his lurching truck one day and tried to warn him: "Your soul will be eternally damned," but Marc only answered, "I must do what I must...
...vain attempt to destroy a U-boat. Impressive also is the film's attention to detail; the viewer becomes completely familiar with the Compass Rose, the radar screen on the bridge, the pistons in the engine room, and he begins to listen himself for the sonar pings that warn of a nearby U-boat...