Word: sirene
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...frankly corny plot concerns a likable but sloppy guy who lies down on his defense job, is siren-songed by Axis agents, collared by Uncle Sam, and finally brought to his senses by hard-bitten visions of 1776, 1865, 1943. This fable gets a lift from such catchy tunes as It's Only the Beginning, Let's Be Americans All, Swing-Shift Sam and Swing-Shift Susie...
Child Psychologist. In Westerly, R.I., imaginative Patrolman Joseph Delaney found a missing five-year-old boy by sounding the fire siren. It brought him running...
Most powerful sponsor of U.M.W. readmission was Hutcheson. The Carpenters' chief, Federation Republican war horse for the last three Presidential campaigns, shares Lewis' rancor against Franklin Roosevelt. A veteran hotel-room trader, Hutcheson heard the siren song of the A.F. of L. presidency in the deals arising from the Lewis application...
...confidential alert came in at 8:59 o'clock, followed by the banshee wall of the blue siren at 9:10. Harvard blacked out immediately, the military dorms leading the way, the civilian ARP men in the College Houses following, and the older men of the graduate schools completing the darkness...
...morning last month, the raucous bell-and-siren summons to General Quarters routed officers & men of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Spencer from their bunks to battle stations. In the distance a huge Atlantic convoy, Europe-bound, was silhouetted in a streak of silvery light. Somewhere in darkness was an enemy submarine. Aboard the Spencer was TIME Correspondent William Walton, whose account of what followed was released by the Navy this week: The seconds dragging by seemed an age. "Jesus, why don't we do something?" muttered a gunner's mate. Nothing but dark waves could be seen...