Word: warns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also said that although he began his speech that night by saying "I am not here to warn you," his reference at the end of the speech to "the disciplinary action that will surely follow" was "a pretty clear indication" to the crowd that the Administration would punish disrupters of the "Counter Teach...
...Apparently term-paper hustling is an old racket [April 19}. My university students warn that one must always order a paper that will receive a grade commensurate with one's previous performance. Thus, deliberate Cs and Bs may be requested in preference to the interesting, fascinating, informative, original A. When I rebuke the practice, the reply is, "But the politicians' speeches are written for them, and look at all the books and articles that are ghosted...
...damn and blast my soul!" the Pre-Raphaelite painter Ford Madox Brown used to warn his grandson. "I will turn you straight out of my house if you go in for any kind of commercial life." But he added: "Beggar yourself rather than refuse assistance to anyone whose genius you think shows promise of being greater than your own." Ford Madox Hueffer, the old artist's grandson, was born into the Rossetti circle. After World War I he changed his Germanic last name to Ford. His achievements included the authorship of 81 books, as well as the more...
...race marked the 196th anniversary of Paul Revere's thrilling ride through the Boston suburbs to warn the citizens that the British were coming...
...teen market. "The commercials advise your child to equate sugar with health and snacks with happiness," he complains. Choate's code would require that precise nutrient values be listed in food commercials for children; promotions based on an item's sugar content would have to warn viewers about the possibility of tooth cavities. The code would also ban more than four food ads an hour on children's programs and effectively bar all drug, medicine and even vitamin messages during youngsters' viewing time. Choate believes that vitamin ads can invite children to substitute capsules...