Word: sirene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...policemen in the patrol car set out in pursuit of the late-model blue-and-white sedan-license number SC-1-that had sped through a red light in Washington, D.C. Siren howling and red light flashing, the squad car chased the offender for a mile. When he finally pulled to the side of the road, the driver handed over his license. Result: no ticket. Later, South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond explained: "The police department informed my office that the officer was inexperienced and expressed regret that the incident occurred." Under federal law, while on official business a member...
Mole crickets, so named because they dig underground burrows, also make loud noises with amorous intent, says British Zoologist H.C. Bennet-Clark. In fact, they make their burrows in the shape of double-horned acoustic amplifiers to concentrate and focus their siren sounds for maximum effect in attracting females. They produce the noise by rubbing a toothed vein on one forewing with a pluck on the other. University of Florida Entomologist Thomas J. Walker explains that male field crickets produce three identifiable songs: one to hail a likely lover, another to beguile one already enthralled, and a third to warn...
...Saints, a collection of essays and sketches of the kind that often get published from the sheer momentum of a downsliding career, contains such elegies of West Side New York as "Sunsets over New Jersey" and such Commen-tariana as "Orthodoxy and Orthodontics." Bech has also succumbed to the siren song of journalism with such artides as "The Landscape of Orgasm" (House and Garden) and "My Favorite Christmas Carol" (Playboy...