Word: sirene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dithers irresolutely, divided on economic policy and on Europe. The white-hot Wilson who fronted the technological challenge of his 1964 victory is a gray ash of his former self-and his credibility is as fragile. His is not the Cromwellian voice that might save the workers from the siren calls of industrial and political anarchy. No longer is there that "we are on our way" zest of ten years ago. Barring a hard-to-foresee miracle, there is a long, hot summer ahead for Britain...
Gossipmongers. Holding court at the Stork Club or chasing around town in a car equipped with police radio, siren and flashing red light, Winchell became a "national institution" with annual earnings of more than $500,000. Trading plugs for the latest dirt, he played the fawning pressagents for all they were worth, banishing the unfavored to his feared "DD [drop dead] list." His underworld contacts occasionally turned up a genuine "skewp." In one instance he announced the slaying of Gangster Vincent ("Mad Dog") Coll six hours before it actually happened. In another, acting as a go-between in the surrender...
...remember the day I filed for the firemen's examination as clearly as a king remembers his coronation ... I was ecstatic that I would soon be a part of the gong clangs and siren howls . . . climbing ladders, pulling hose, and saving children from the waltz of the hot-masked devil. Tearful mothers would embrace me, editorial writers would extol me, mayors would pin medals and ribbons to my breast...
Poulin happened onto his volunteer job one January afternoon in 1970, when he was driving his police car by the academy. He stopped and enthralled the children by letting them play with the flashing light and siren. School officials soon asked him if he would form a Scout troop for a group of difficult youngsters. Now Friday morning is the highlight of the children's week. While the task has cost Poulin money from his own pocket -and considerable emotional pain-he would not give it up for anything. He even manages to visit the school...
...himself out on the streets covering fires and chasing criminals. When Monitor was started on NBC radio, Chancellor was among the first newsmen assigned to that novel and imaginative operation. Driving a mobile unit rigged to look like a police car, complete with a flashing red light and a siren, Chancellor stayed tuned to the police radio band and often beat the cops to the scene of the crime...