Word: siren
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...Warsaw University some 5,000 students walked out of their classes and marched around the campus in silent protest. At the Huta Warszawa steelworks, the site of large-scale resistance following last December's military crackdown, a strike siren wailed at midday, and up to three-fourths of the workers laid down their tools for a quarter of an hour. Entire departments quit work at some other Warsaw factories, and employees at the F.S.O. car plant held a peaceful demonstration outside the plant's gates...
...WHAT is that jangling noise that we hear? Not the chimes' round the necks of the trusty reindeer? It's the siren song of the Associated Press, Four bells to tell us we're out of this mess. It seems that King Ronald on horseback proclaimed, "For the stopping of Christmas, I'll never be blamed. From those bad man in PATCO I'll lift my injunction, By gee and by golly--this Xmas will function." So he told David Stockman (on his Trojan steed), "Quick, print up the extra cash that we'll need." Happy that Yuletide by fortune...
...helped by responding with a loud voice and a tin ear. Before President Reagan's widely hailed speech last week, his bellicose anti-Soviet rhetoric and willful insensitivity even to legitimate Western European concerns often made it easier for Leonid Brezhnev to find an audience for his siren's song...
...warm Saturday evening early this September, the classical strains of two violins and a cello resonate in the entrance to the Coop, mingling with the constant roar of Harvard Square traffic and an occasional siren. Around the Square's busiest corner, at Brattle and Palmer near the Coop Annex, a woman guitarist wails a Joni Mitchell tune into a portable microphone and amplifier in her own musical fight against the motorized bustle. The classical musicians and the lone woman each grab a portion of the nighttime crowd, but the audiences are largely transient. The onlookers stay for a song, maybe...
Listening to Hun tell you about the day the noon siren went...