Word: warns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...large roadside billboards just inside the county lines north and south of town guard the approach to Ludowici. Placed there by Governor Lester Maddox two weeks ago, they warn approaching motorists of "speed traps" and "clip joints" in large black letters on a white background. State Trooper Thomas Randall sits in his blue Chevrolet guarding the southernmost sign against Ludowici's irate citizens. Occasionally Randall puts aside his Playboy and climbs out to chat with a tourist, such as H.E. Phillips from Beaufort, S.C. "I've heard about this place in the state of Washington," says Phillips, snapping...
...rally began breaking up at about 4:45 p.m. As the crowd dispersed. a Cambridge policeman used a bullhorn to warn the demonstrators that they were participating in an "unlawful assembly." "We will give you ten minutes to clear the sidewalk," he added...
...hydric hammock" that abounds with rare alligators, panthers and wild turkeys. The hammock harbors this life because the river bed is periodically exposed to air, thus providing alternating wet and dry seasons that are essential to the survival of the wild, beautiful river-swamp system. With permanent flooding, ecologists warn, the system's rare creatures will soon vanish...
CRIME. An outspoken critic of some Warren court decisions upholding defendants' rights, Burger unsuccessfully urged his colleagues to review a case that could have restricted the 1966 Miranda decision requiring policemen to warn detained suspects of their rights to silence and counsel. And last week Burger sharply dissented from a key decision extending the rights of young people in juvenile courts...
...though he may well be both. He has a gruff manner and a Dutch-comic soup-strainer mustache. There is a manic-gypsy look at the corners of his eyes, like that of an elf on a high. His face has been described as the sort that nervous mothers warn children against before they skip off to play in the Black Forest. At charades, he couldn't miss as one of those ambivalent wood cutters that lurk in the background of Grimm fairy tales...