Word: sirening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loudspeaker, trumpet, siren, search-light, and assorted student outcries marked the coming of Election Day in the Lowell House small courtyard last night...
Alarm clocks then began ringing, and a siren wall went up. The loudspeaker replied to this with, "Communication between entries of Lowell House is strang verboten." Firecrackers started exploding, and a searchlight from a fourth or fifth story room began to sweep the courtyard...
...passion for plunging toward new ideas or new philosophies. Literature leaned heavily on the historical novel which, by a curious transformation, seemed to provide the only public expression of the libido. Historical novels were most noteworthy for their dust jackets, all of which seemed to boast a red-lipped siren with a low-cut dress and an incredibly pneumatic bust. U.S. intellectuals, who had once ranged from the Paris Left Bank to Communism's left wing, had come home to roost. It was a little saddening to the more daring spirits, but in 1948 it was difficult to want...
...alarm box for ladies in distress which fits pocket or purse was advertised by a New York department store: "Though we hope you'll never have to use it, if you should sense, danger, simply flick a little button and the Beau Alarm releases a shrill, penetrating siren shriek that positively cannot be stopped until it runs down and that can be heard for blocks around...
Nobody seems to know how often a male mosquito can mate. Perhaps he can mate only once, or at most a few times. If so, a sharp reduction (by siren song) of the number of males in a swamp will condemn most of the females to spinsterhood. They will lay unfertilized eggs and the next mosquito generation will be too sparse to distribute much malaria...