Word: sirene
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...inaudible "yellow" alert will summon civil defense personnel to their positions. At 9:35 the "red" alert, a series of short siren blasts continuing for three minutes, will call the public to participate in the drill...
...yellow alert" will sound, calling Civil Defense personnel to their positions. Twenty minutes later the "red alert," a series of short siren blasts for a period of three minutes, will sound the first signal calling for public response...
...many a night Zorba heads for the home of Bouboulina, a blowzy, scow-bottomed "old siren," once the darling of admirals and of fleets. When his boss refuses to make love to a young, appetizing widow, Zorba warns him: "Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all ... is not to have one." The boss takes Zorba's advice to heart and the young widow to bed. Meanwhile, Zorba never misses a chance to ask such puzzlers as: What is a woman? Who made the stars? Why do men die? The boss's widow is murdered...
...only sound in Lahore was the banshee wail of the curfew siren and the tramp of hobnailed military boots on the darkened, empty streets...
...back of a chaise longue; a young woman postured in leg-revealing shorts. Upstairs a sleek blonde feigned innocent sleep. In one cellar, pajama-clad parents had herded their kids into wooden FCDA shelters, as if they had just been awakened by the wail of a warning siren. In every room, dummy Americans waited for the works...