Word: sirened
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they made the Bears go all the way back to the Blue Jays' 50-yard line, and the Bears had to kick a bunt. To everyone's surprise, the puck flew off course, right into the center field bleachers and hit someone in the ear. But then the siren went off, signalling the end of the second round, and everyone switched sides, just like in red rover...
Indexation, the system of pegging payments such as salaries or Government Social Security benefits to the rate of inflation, is a siren that has attracted supporters on both the political right and left. Milton Friedman, a sometime adviser to Ronald Reagan, has advocated COLAs as a stopgap to mitigate the social disruptions caused by soaring prices while action is taken to bring inflation under control. And Rudy Oswald, chief economist of the AFL-CIO, says, "Indexation allows workers to make up for some of the inflation that has taken place...
Andy Rooney is the Boswell of stuff. He has heard the siren call of an empty coffee can ("How can you throw away such a nice clean can with this tight-fitting top?"). He understands the disquieting dimensions of soap ("Most of its lifetime, a cake of soap is too small . . . It's not only too small, it's sharp around the edges"). And he knows why dogs are man's best friend ("The average dog is a nicer person than the average person...
...long enough to master timing and goofy faces, the pair are best when they forget about dope and concentrate on telling jokes. When hundreds of police arrive to arrest them, they innocently wander out the back way, mingle with the cops, and make an eight-track recording of their sirens. This may not sound funny, but it is--humor being relative. Later, they play the instruments in a music store so loudly that they catch on fire. They take over the stage in a nightclub and tell dirty jokes until a chair-throwing brawl breaks out. They wander through...
...U.S.S.R. provide generally reliable reporting and less ideological filler about events inside the Soviet Union than The Beacon, the nationwide hourly news program beamed from Moscow. The Western radio stations also offer Soviet listeners tantalizing glimpses of capitalist life through feature stories and interviews, while playing the siren song of rock and folk music, which are immensely popular among Soviet youth...