Word: warned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...magic wand. Children who threaten to disobey Mary Poppins (it is never more than a threat) are reduced by one glance from her ice-blue eyes. In her latest adventure-fantasy, the creator of Mary Poppins, Australian-born Mrs. Pamela L. Travers, offers a cautionary bit of advice: "I warn you, children, take care of your shadows or your shadows won't take care...
Treaty Negotiator: More & more, Dulles took part in postwar diplomacy. But he was quick to see and to warn publicly against the menace of Communism, and became a prime target of Moscow vilification ("warmonger . . . falsifier of facts"). He firmly supported the Administration's European policies (ECA, NATO). After a round of international parleys, giving Republican counsel to Democratic Secretaries of State Byrnes, Marshall and Acheson, he left bipartisan diplomacy for a fling at politics, took an appointment by Governor Thomas Dewey as interim New York Senator (June-December 1949). Running for the seat at the polls, he lost...
McCarthy said the reason for such a tremendous increase was due in part to the influx of politicians into the Cambridge area during the past few months. "We should warn them a few times," he said, ""but after that, when we'd find them parked in front of the City Hall or some other restricted area, 'we'd just have to issue a summons...
...combined effects of a Crimson let-down, over-confidence, and complacency, they warn, might work a major miracle for the North Carolina eleven...
...University of Wisconsin in Madison, he took a swipe at Joe McCarthy: "The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain. It must be unrestricted . . . Some, perhaps, find it politically profitable to cultivate the vineyards of anxiety. I would warn them lest they reap the grapes of wrath." At Milwaukee, where Stevenson drew a crowd that was somewhat bigger than Eisenhower's crowd of the week before, Stevenson criticized Ike for his routine endorsement of Joe McCarthy and of Indiana's Senator William Jenner. Said Stevenson: "Disturbing things have taken place...