Word: warningly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PRAY FOR RHODESIA implores a bumper sticker seen on many cars in Salisbury these days. Signs in public places warn against loose talk that might jeopardize security. STICKS AND STONES MAY BREAK YOUR BONES, BUT WORDS CAN KILL YOU reads one. A BOAST NOW, A BOMB LATER goes another. Over lunch at the staid Salisbury Club, business and government leaders dismiss those who worry about the future as "dismal Jimmys." But many are quietly preparing what they refer to as "fallback positions, " slowly salting away nest eggs abroad despite Rhodesia's stiff system of restrictions on overseas capital transfers...
...child she was racked by scarlet fever, which spurred her imagination. She dreamed of whirlpools and premonitions of death. When she went to Paris in 1970, she thought she saw Jimi Hendrix and Brian Jones dying from regurgitation. She tried to warn them, but she wasn't famous enough to get through...
...shortcomings of Pajaczkowski's Faustus are thrown into sharper relief by the masterful performance of Greg Landis as Mephistophilis. The embodiment of controlled torment, Landis remains sympathetic even while hissing damnation. When the memory of his own loss of grace moves him to warn Faustus of the devil's snares, Landis projects a dignity never fully attained by his victim...
...hazardous standoff continues there is a strong chance that the encounters between Icelandic gunboats and British frigates may cause a fatal accident. Should one Icelandic sailor die government officials warn, public opinion may demand a break with NATO Such a break would both please and enhance the political clout of the Communist-oriented "People's Alliance," which has eleven seats in Reykiavik's 1,000-year-old Parliament. It might also benefit the Soviet Union, whose trawlers, during the cod war with Britain have scrupulously observed Iceland's 200-mile fishing limit...
Then, when Malek pushed this general plan harder with Haldeman in a memo early in 1972, naming names of the people he thought would "ride herd" on the White House efforts, Haldeman began to warn him to stay clean. "You should try to stay almost completely out of this except at very top level," Haldeman scribbled on the memo. He underlined Malek's suggestion that his staff members carry out "Patronage and Personnel" responsiveness action "with a minimal amount of direction" from Malek himself...