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Word: sirened (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...helped by responding with a loud voice and a tin ear. Before President Reagan's widely hailed speech last week, his bellicose anti-Soviet rhetoric and willful insensitivity even to legitimate Western European concerns often made it easier for Leonid Brezhnev to find an audience for his siren's song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Dilemma of Nuclar Doctrine | 11/30/1981 | See Source »

...warm Saturday evening early this September, the classical strains of two violins and a cello resonate in the entrance to the Coop, mingling with the constant roar of Harvard Square traffic and an occasional siren. Around the Square's busiest corner, at Brattle and Palmer near the Coop Annex, a woman guitarist wails a Joni Mitchell tune into a portable microphone and amplifier in her own musical fight against the motorized bustle. The classical musicians and the lone woman each grab a portion of the nighttime crowd, but the audiences are largely transient. The onlookers stay for a song, maybe...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: Singing the Brattle Street Blues | 10/28/1981 | See Source »

...noon siren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Summer's End: Goodbye, Local Peaches | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

Listening to Hun tell you about the day the noon siren went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Summer's End: Goodbye, Local Peaches | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...this wafts like a siren song from the twin glass and green-roofed shopping pavilions that form the year-old Harborplace: two-story, block-long, translucent pleasure domes where visitors can be seen from outside swarming in rhythmic schools like the angelfish at the nearby National Aquarium in Baltimore, a dazzling, $21.3 million piscine habitat that was formally opened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: He Digs Downtown | 8/24/1981 | See Source »

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