Word: warningly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the memory of the second World War has not died out. To some degree, there is a danger of reviving this memory in thinking of too great differences in the economic and social performance of this country as compared with others in Europe. From time to time I warn my countrymen that we would under no circumstances advise any German to seek German leadership in Europe or even within the EEC. We don't dream of it, and I warn everyone not to dream...
...telephones. The first CB license was not granted until 1947. In the next quar ter-century, only 850,000 CB licenses were issued. Then came the 1973 oil embargo, speed limits were dropped to 55 m.p.h. ("double nickel" in CB argot) and truck drivers installed the units to warn each other of lurking cops ("smokey bears") and radar cars ("Kojak with a Kodak"). Television news picked up the story, and the rest is hysteria...
...symbol been entirely shorn of substance. Any Prime Minister has to take seriously the monarch's right to advise and warn. Though Anthony Eden ignored Elizabeth's judgment that Britain should not make its disastrous 1956 Suez intervention, and was himself ruined by that adventure, the Queen strongly influenced Harold Wilson's decision to stop short of sending troops in countering Rhodesia's declaration of independence in 1965. Comparable governmental decisions have reflected the judgment of the Dutch and Belgian monarchs, and may possibly be seen in Spain in the future. In any event, both the ceremonial and less apparent...
...proposal calls for a placement monitoring committee to "actively encourage" informal discrimination complaints and to warn law firm recruiters about potentially discriminatory or offensive hiring activities...
...forces deep within the earth, they tear apart to resume their journeys, causing minor to moderate tremors. But in the Palmdale region, they have apparently been firmly locked for more than a century, while adjoining parts of the plate have slid as much as 30 ft. Some day, seismologists warn, the stalled sections are going to have to catch up with the main bodies of the plates. Strains are inexorably building up in the crustal rock. When-as it must -the rock finally fractures, the plates will jolt ahead, causing a major earthquake. In fact, the last significant plate movement...