Word: sirened
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Battat suggested increasing the visibility of the blue lights and attach- ing a floodlight or a siren to the phones. Theemergency mechanisms would be set off when anyonepicks up the phone, said Battat. "If you're beingraped, that might be the extra 10 seconds youneed," he said...
...when the final siren sounded, the scoreboard read Harvard 5, Boston College 4. And the Crimson's seven-year absence from the championship game had ended in front of 14,448 Boston Garden spectators...
Many of those in the capital who are talking about the pay hike favor it, as do students of government who contend that too many of the most talented men and women pick private industry over public service because of the siren song of much higher pay. But for many Americans "out there" who already feel that life inside the Washington Beltway is a world vastly different from their own, the prospect of such big raises right at budget-cutting time is cause for concern, derision, even anger. At their current salary of $89,500 a year, Congressmen already make...
Rationality means turning away from the siren lure of mysticism and confronting beautiful theories with ungainly facts. "The so-called New Age," he maintains, "is really a throwback to the early times when we believed in ogres and devils and monsters and evil fairies. We knew so little about the world that it seemed filled with intelligences superior to our own. Naturally, we lived in terror. But now we know so much about the whole universe. Now we can concentrate on real evils...
From the opening credits (a police car's siren light cruises down a street, onto the sidewalk, into a house, through a girls' shower room) to the closing crawl (which confides, "In case of tornado, southwest corner of basement"), The Naked Gun is a picture in thrall to its own silliness. Three of the film's perpetrators, the ZAZ team, spoofed '70s disaster epics in Airplane! and spy movies in Top Secret! Now they have stolen from themselves, extending their 1982 TV series Police Squad! to feature length. The stretch marks show, in a plethora of chase scenes and bathroom...