Word: warning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must warn you that today war and peace do not depend on small nations like Bulgaria. She is so small that she cannot dictate whether there shall be war or peace. We have therefore to be ready for any eventuality...
...silencing the human voice. Few of the men & women who might tell how Communism really works ever escaped to tell. The handful who did* were defeated by a twofold irony: 1) they were suspect as Communists, doubly suspect as ex-Communists; 2) the things of which they tried to warn the world were so monstrous that few believed them...
...convictions. In 1808, taking up the controversy of public v. private schools, he observed: "Fun, frolick and filigree are too much practised at the academies for the benefit of a farmer's boy. Let them have a solid and useful education." Eleven years later he was moved to warn: "Either the body or the mind must be engaged in honest industry; for idleness is like grog -take nothing else and-'you're gone...
...words. Winsome Willkie's worried wretches watch wonderingly while Wendell's wide wagon wabbles, wavers, wriggles weakly, weirdly wrecks. Willkie's wailing, wild words won't worry worthy workers, wives, widows, workless. Whooping windbag, Willkie wallops will-o'-wisps. Workingmen want work. Wayfarers, watchmen: warn wireless "Willkie...
...doubt you have been encouraged by the results of the recent air battles but you would be mistaken if you were beginning to think that the danger of invasion or massed attacks from the air is past. I must warn you against relapsing into any mood of complacency. The future may well hold for us far greater ordeals than any through which we have yet passed. Only a small fraction of the Germans' heavy bomber force has yet been, engaged...