Word: warning
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...behave," Chicago teachers used to warn Negro pupils, "I'll send you to Dunbar." Ramshackle Dunbar Trade School on Chicago's South Side was little better than a reform school. Nobody preened himself on winning a Dunbar diploma, or stood much chance of landing a job with one. Then Clifford J. Campbell came along...
...airframe designers were screaming for more power. Now they have it, they do not know quite what to do with it. The power-plant men are doing the screaming now. The great engine builders (Pratt & Whitney, Allison, General Electric, Westinghouse) are working on more powerful engines. "Get busy," they warn the airframe men, "and design some airframes that can keep up with...
When an object is moving through air at less than Mach I, compression waves speed out ahead of it. They "warn" the air molecules that a moving body is coming, so the molecules have time to rearrange themselves to flow evenly around it. But above Mach I, the moving body (like the raiding Mongols of the Middle Ages) out-speeds the news of its coming. The air molecules, taken by surprise, are pushed aside sharply...
...session would be "a frightful imposition." But the wires from Albany burned with telephone messages to House Majority Leader Charles Halleck in Rensselaer, Ind.; to Speaker Joe Martin at his summer home in Sagamore, Mass.; to other top Republican strategists. When Joe Martin finally spoke up, it was to warn: "There will be plenty of action. Like the boys at Bunker Hill, we'll wait to see the whites of their eyes...
...Near an old trading post, which, according to legend, got its name, Ninety Six, when an Indian girl named Cateechee rode 96 miles on horseback to warn her white lover of an Indian raid. When Cateechee learned that he had been killed, she jumped off a high bluff...