Word: warn
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Khrushchev began rushing intermediate-range nuclear missiles, launching equipment and Ilyushin-28 bombers to Cuba. President Kennedy's dramatic response was to order a naval blockade of Cuba and to warn that the U.S. would take "whatever means may be necessary" to remove the missiles. Khrushchev grew alarmed. Seeking "to take the heat off the situation," he suggested to other members of his government: "Comrades, let's go to the Bolshoi Theater this evening. Our own people as well as foreign eyes will notice, and perhaps it will calm them down." After he and Kennedy had begun exchanging...
With the negotiations a virtual certainty, both sides dispatched high-powered emissaries to Washington this week to discuss the situation. Jordan's King Hussein, who stopped in Cairo to visit Sadat, is expected to warn President Nixon of a possible outbreak of fighting unless earnest discussions are under way before the current cease-fire expires. At the same time, Hussein, who still depends on the West for arms, will seek more aid to replace some of the $24 million annual subsidy that Libya's revolutionary government canceled after the September fighting between Hussein's troops and Arab...
...will propose that students register their pets with their senior tutor," Moore said. "If complaints about a pet are made, the senior tutor will warn the owner. If further complaints are recorded, he may rescind pet privileges for that person...
...enticements to dalliance. The Washington ambience, by contrast, is a political pressure cooker?almost devoid of the soft lights and shadowed corners where small intimacies can flower into intimacy. It is slightly nerve-racking to be close to a man whose electronic "beeper" may go off any second to warn him that he is wanted at the White House; and those black overstuffed sofas in the offices on the Hill are not the most comfortable bowers of Venus...
Foreign nations retaliate against the new U.S. restrictions, and angry U.S. politicians and businessmen press Nixon to hit back by putting up barriers against an even longer list of imports. Cooler heads in all nations warn that such a cycle of retaliation and counterretaliation, carried to the extreme, can have the most chilling consequences. The last such spiral began duringand did much to deepenthe Great Depression. But the margin for good sense is slim, as the world teeters on the brink of a trade war that no one wanted...