Word: warnings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Juan Perón was seriously worried by strains within his regime, his show had given him a good chance to warn his enemies that he could still produce a potent mob of the faithful on short notice. Thus, the plot might be worth whatever it might cost in bad relations with the U.S. In any case, Juan Perón proved that he still knows how to polish off a general strike: he declared next day a general holiday, so everybody could rest...
Students on probation must attend all classes, Ducey declared. Individual instructors may also warn any student taking too many cuts and expel him from the course if not satisfied with his subsequent attendance...
...remember the order. No woman could." Well, why didn't she put all the lovers in the play? "Look," she replied, "I did the best I could in a couple of hours' entertainment. That many men would just clutter up the stage." The judge had to warn the audience not to laugh or applaud. Mae gave the rest of the cast an approving eye, told them: "You're doin' all right. The first readin' was terrific...
...airframe designers were screaming for more power. Now they have it, they do not know quite what to do with it. The power-plant men are doing the screaming now. The great engine builders (Pratt & Whitney, Allison, General Electric, Westinghouse) are working on more powerful engines. "Get busy," they warn the airframe men, "and design some airframes that can keep up with...
When an object is moving through air at less than Mach I, compression waves speed out ahead of it. They "warn" the air molecules that a moving body is coming, so the molecules have time to rearrange themselves to flow evenly around it. But above Mach I, the moving body (like the raiding Mongols of the Middle Ages) out-speeds the news of its coming. The air molecules, taken by surprise, are pushed aside sharply...