Word: warning
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...Dalles, Ore., a thirsty tourist beheld a roadside spring over which the Highway Department had nailed a sign: THIS WATER IS CONTAMINATED. He hurried to the spring, began noisily to drink. A highway official, driving by, stopped to warn the drinking fellow. "Hi, Chief," said the guzzler, "what kind of mineral water is this here contaminated water? I never heard of it before, and this is the first time I seen it advertised." The official crawled away. Next day the old sign was replaced with another: THIS WATER IS ROTTEN. NOT FIT TO DRINK...
...seldom in the past 50 years that the people of this country have been confronted by the prospect of widespread industrial strife. But never, so far as I can judge, has the danger been so grave and so urgent as today. The wisest thinkers warn us that at this moment there is an almost unparalleled crisis in our national life...
...heroic days, now several centuries past, when two opposing armies debouched upon a field of battle, each advanced a herald to warn the other of its aims, the intentness of its purpose, the justice of its cause, the dire results to be expected if the other did not summarily yield and to hold forth the promise that all would be well if its demands were immediately complied with...
...main purpose of Lord Lee's speech was to warn the English-speaking peoples against American cinemas...
With the probability, amounting almost to a certainty, that Germany will soon join the League of Nations, the Bolsheviki decided that, it was again time to warn Berlin of its folly...