Word: warns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fastest-growing communications medium since the Bell telephone. Used largely as a plaything after its introduction in the 1950s, it first invaded the air waves in force during the 1973 oil embargo, when speed limits were dropped to 55 m.p.h. and truck drivers installed the units to warn each other of radar traps. In the past year, the vogue has spread to a vast and vocal number of private-car owners, who have tied into a short-wave system* that today links an estimated 6 million radio sets. For most of its users, the CB system has become...
...just before his trip to Montreal for the American Judicature Society meeting, recalled Columnist Jack Anderson, when an assistant FBI director called to warn of a possible assassination plot by Arab terrorists. "If the FBI calls you, you've got to pay more attention than if some nut just wrote you a letter," said Anderson. Accordingly, Montreal police were notified, and they arranged for a secret hotel room and plainclothes guard. His protection thus assured, Anderson ventured out to make his speech-which included his standard quick jab at the FBI for keeping dossiers on prominent Americans...
Recently an informal group of linguistic vigilantes has risen up to ridicule American abuses and to warn, in terms alternately playful and despairing, that a culture so heedless of its language is headed toward a state of corrupt, Orwellian gibberish These writers have found a responsive audience; people obsessed with good English almost enjoy the feeling that they belong to an embattled cult. NBC Commentator Edwin Newman's Strictly Speaking, a catalogue of ugly Americanisms and verbal atrocities, was 26 weeks on the bestseller lists. A Pulitzer prizewinning writer, Jean Stafford, has been conducting a crusade of sorts against...
Maximum Fine. Originality is allowed, but postal regulations warn that posts or supports "may not be designed to represent effigies and caricatures that would tend to disparage or ridicule any person." Boxes must also be rust-free and "neat." Regulations for mail slots and apartment mailboxes are very nearly as detailed. Persistent violation of the rules can bring a halt to home delivery. Mail can, of course, be picked up at the post office, but that involves renting a box at rates that just went up from $21.60 to $25 a year, or using a general-delivery window, which often...
...Eastman, a leading Beverly Hills skin-care specialist, protests that it is an "outrageous" fad, and a number of dermatologists back him up. Some doctors explain that Preparation H works on the face by slightly irritating the skin, thus causing enough swelling to minimize small wrinkles; continued use, they warn, may accelerate skin aging by causing inflammation and scaling. American Home Products Corp., which produces Preparation H, has no comment on its unorthodox use. But physicians warn that like any other medication, it should be used only as directed-and the face, they point out, is not the part...