Word: sirene
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...terrible roar as the warhead bit through the Kearny's armor. The explosion killed seven men stationed in the forward boiler room on the steaming watch. Its force ripped up through the deck, wrecked the starboard wing of the bridge, knocked the forward stack back and broke the siren cord so that its shrill yowl could not be shut off. Four others disappeared, probably blown overboard...
EVIL UNDER THE SUN - Agatha Christie-Dodd, Mead ($2). Hercule Poirot's little grey cells function on the implausibly executed but beautifully elucidated murder of a blonde siren at a British summer resort. Not Christie's best, but better than most...
...hats, cowboy hats, gas masks, baseball caps, motorman's caps, sandhog's helmets, catcher's masks, policeman's hats, or hatless-domineering, demure, strident, spectacular, funny, embarrassing-but never dignified. He is a civic combination of Billy Sunday, "Schnozzle" Durante, "Chico" Marx and a fire siren...
Latest victim of priorities on scarce materials: fire-engine bells. Because "an ordinary siren will do the job," OPM last week forbade bells (on new fire engines) for the duration...
...dark. A white sheet of spray lifted high over the starboard lifelines and swished down on the deck. From the siren on the foremast came a hoarse groan-ten seconds to go. The loudspeaker took up the count. It came faint, thin and broken to the forepeak: "9-7,6-FIRE...