Word: warned
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Leibowitz: "I warn you, Mr. Gross, all of this sarcasm and smart-aleck retort is going to cost you dearly...
...warn, though, that citizens in the country might take the charges more seriously than a skeptical and alert university community...
...Owner Paul Fagan, a bitter enemy of the draft, announced a fortnight ago that he was through, and ready to sell out. Fagan was in Honolulu last week, and in no mood to reconsider, when the owners took their action. Said he: "All the League actually did was to warn the majors. I think it was an idle threat. The majors will force them into some kind of compromise at the December meetings, and we'll be back about where we were." But other Coast League men angrily denied this. Said C. L. (Brick) Laws, owner of the Oakland...
Undertaker Floyd produced a sheaf of documents and handed them over. Harry read the first sentence and exploded "General Morgan, sir? You're not taking General Morgan today, tomorrow or the next day." Thoroughly aroused, Harry hustled off to warn his fellow townsmen that Cowpens, S.C. (pop. 1,800) had launched a new and bold attack to snatch the body of General Daniel Morgan...
Colonel Stalin climbed trees for a better look at take-offs and landings, on at least one occasion punished sloppy flying with a cuff from his leather gauntlets. Red airmen whooping it up in Potsdam's nightclubs posted sentries to warn of Vasily's approach. The colonel, they said, hated to have his boys get tipsy and make spectacles of themselves. Except for a few favored companions, anyone who got caught landed in solitary. There were private and inconsequential attempts at revenges: once the leather seats of Stalin's car were ripped out; another time, someone heaved...