Word: sirenes
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...carillon of Boston's Park Street Church pealed out The Impossible Dream, the city's No. 1 ecclesiastical fan-Richard Cardinal Gushing-bestowed a blessing on the team, and the Boston fire department announced that it would sound every siren it owned the minute the Red Sox won the seventh and final game...
...brevity that helps make possible the grim humor with which the Marines accept their defensive watch. Atop Major Froncek's bunker stands a six-foot-high handmade catapult, which he smilingly explains is "a last-ditch weapon in case we are overrun." Not far away stands a siren that is no joke. Should the base ever be overrun, it will scream a signal to everyone to burrow deep down inside their bunkers. Then all the other U.S. artillery bases within range will wheel their guns around to fire on Gio Linh itself in an attempt to blast the North...
...beautiful big thighs!") Laurens, of course, was not merely defending Marlene: he was defending his own conception of sex and soul, a lifelong vision of woman as a beauteous, bursting form. She had entered his hands an inhibited Victorian lady and emerged a delightfully sensuous modern. She was a siren, Dawn, Night, a symbol of all nature's most mysterious forces. Now, in a sweeping retrospective at Paris' Grand Palais com posed of 110 bronzes, plus terra cottas and drawings - all part of a grand gift from the sculptor's son Claude to the French nation - every...
...Blared his emergency siren in the presidential palace one day last month, then decreed a 10 p.m. curfew, a rare measure even for Papa Doc; anyone caught on the streets after the witching hour took his life in his hands...
...needed gas every 20 laps) and have room inside for four persons (the Mark 11s could barely squeeze in two). They changed their mind when Ford threatened to pull out of this year's race altogether, leaving the field wide open for Italy's Enzo Ferrari, whose siren-red racing machines won every 24 Hours from 1960 through...