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Word: sirening (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inside, the false electronic siren sang on & on, night after night. She killed, in all, 40,000 males. By the end of the test period, only a few were left to answer her fatal invitation. For two miles around the swamp was almost cleared of males...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Siren's Song | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

This year he had campaigned with the fervor of a thirsty desert wanderer heading for a water hole. He had leapfrogged across the state in a helicopter, had done his best to get siren-tooting motorcycle escorts when campaigning by automobile. Texans had admired his glib, excited, high-pressure approach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Neck & Neck | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

When Acme's photographer handed Blumenfeld the fight pictures, away went the ambulance, the siren screaming. The pictures were developed on the way and sent to Acme's clients from a downtown office well ahead of the competition. At the next big fight, six ambulances were parked outside. Recalls Blumenfeld fondly: "We had a regular Roman chariot race down Park Avenue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: 23 Minutes to Anywhere | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

Shortly after noon one day last week, a white DC-3 with U.N. markings carried the last members of Mediator Count Bernadotte's staff from Tel Aviv. A minute and a half later, Tel Aviv's air-raid siren shrilled as an Egyptian reconnaissance plane flew over. War had returned to Palestine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Terrible Risks | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

...clock, the truce deadline, a siren wailed through the Jewish quarters. The drumfire noises of war faded to scattered shots, then died out completely. An unreal quiet gripped Jerusalem. It was the same throughout most of Palestine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Embers | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

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