Word: sirened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hungary's Chief Public Prosecutor Geza Szenasi gave Hungary's reply. Said he: "After martial law was repealed, some people expected that there would be a lessening of rigor. These expectations are without real foundation. The slogan, 'Let us make peace among us,' is a siren song. Such lukewarmness favors the enemy. Tolerance and understanding will be shown only to those who were misled by our enemies...
...nation's 77.9 million drivers, it was the week to do their Christmas window-shopping early. Detroit rolled its 1958 models and began to croon its annual siren sales song to the U.S. public. Out came a whole fleet of new cars in a blizzard of announcements promising "jet intakes," "bubble windshields," "flight-pitch transmissions," "Marauder engines"-even an ICBM look. There were downswept snouts, upswept fins and outswept taillights ; all were ablaze with dazzling colors and gleaming chrome brighter than any Christmas tree. Sighed a Detroit secretary, rapturously examining a trailerload of new 1958s; "Chrome is my favorite...
...gaminess and, what's worse, imprisons the show's vitality in a plaster cast. As the young love interest, Kim just trudges around in the well-known Novakuum, and Rita Hayworth, especially when she sings her big song (Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered), still sounds the siren, but where's the fire...
...Siren Left. Only 30 miles before Geelong, an Aussie Ford missed a sharp turn at 70 m.p.h., skidded through a fence and wound up with its rear wheels hanging over a small cliff. That first casualty lost the rally its only car equipped with a siren for scaring off kangaroos...
Otherwise . . . In Kingston, Tenn., Cyclist J. B. Cook, booked for public drunkenness after a mile-long flight in which he wove in and out of traffic and pedaled hard to get away despite the patrol car's spotlight and siren, mumbled with chagrin: "There's a lot of play in these handle bars...