Word: warns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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October 12 was set as the day of the coup, and General Velez ordered a final meeting at headquarters for the night of Sept. 23. That afternoon Reyes got a tipoff, frantically called an emergency meeting at home to warn his associates. But there was a double double-cross and the police sprang the trap then & there. The name of John Griffiths, onetime U.S. embassy worker, was tossed in to give the conspiracy some foreign color. He had once been friendly with Reyes...
...persistent rumors coming down from the North warn of great plans being made up in Hanover. The intensity of this campaign is certainly increased by the failure of the 1947 operation. A combination of a forest fire in New Hampshire which grounded all Indian warriors, and a sudden CRIMSON expose of the entire plot demolished such grandiose schemes as dyeing the Charles River green...
Rona Jaffe '51, Felicia Reed '52, and Betty Trygstad '52 were all set to take on Commodore Pete Putnam and his men, when Radcliffe authorities stepped in to warn the three that they must pass a seamanship test before they may do any racing on the Charles...
...Harvard yachtsmen had demanded, the race will be sailed with the losers' shirts at stake, an old crew custom that Commodore Putnam insisted should be carried over for this event. But the Radcliffe dinghy sailors warn Putnam that there will be some surprises in store for him if they should lose...
...rest of Young Washington is chiefly the story of George's effort to fight a nightmarish war against able enemies, with insufficient men and supplies. Freeman's accounts of Washington's volunteer trip to warn the French away from the Ohio, the disastrous defeat at Fort Necessity and the slaughter of Braddock's army are easily the soundest and most complete in print...