Word: warns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mood turned to alarm on Sunday morning, Sept. 20, when Syrian tanks rolled southward to relieve pressure on the commandos. Israeli troops began massing along the Jordanian border to the west. Nixon asked Secretary of State William Rogers to warn the Russians again. He did so, in the sternest note that the Nixon Administration has yet sent to Moscow. It threatened the "gravest consequences" if the Syrians did not withdraw...
Okay pigs, now listen and listen good. There's a bomb in the Army Math Research Center-the university-set to go off in five minutes. Clear the building. Warn the hospital. This is no bull...
Newspaper ads in Santiago show a Soviet tank squatting threateningly in the courtyard of Chile's Government House. "They didn't think it could happen in Czechoslovakia, either," the ads warn. A billboard, which depicts a street clogged with barbed wire, carries the message: "Here children used to play." Says another: "If Allende wins, this will be the last election...
...Ralph Nader would liken a pickup truck carrying a camper box around a tight turn to a circus elephant with one leg raised? Or another pickup in an S-turn to a round-bottomed dinghy during a squall? Who at the same time would warn that baby shampoos, their ads notwithstanding, will probably sting the eyes of some infants? Or declare that the most persistent cheating at supermarket meat counters is plain, old-fashioned short-weighting...
...produce the noise by rubbing a toothed vein on one forewing with a pluck on the other. University of Florida Entomologist Thomas J. Walker explains that male field crickets produce three identifiable songs: one to hail a likely lover, another to beguile one already enthralled, and a third to warn off a potential rival. The kind of sound a cricket makes depends on the species, the air temperature and the circumstances in which the individual insect finds himself; There is no telling what loud sounds of pain or pleasure a cricket might make if he found himself decked out like...