Word: sirening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Minister. Sir Winston Churchill, holed up in his hotel suite, busied himself with revisions of his forthcoming History of the English-Speaking Peoples, which he wrote before World War II, found little time to edit till now. He made a sensa tional dinner appearance one evening in a red siren suit and slippers to match, jollied the hotel into swallowing its "Sunny Sicily" slogans and turning on its central heating. But he pleased the management enormously by quaffing the house champagne instead of the supply shipped to him from Gibraltar. At week's end he and Lady Churchill were...
Marlene sounds mellower than ever before. She is still a bored, poised and cynical siren, but compassionate and full of ripe wisdom. "In your voice we hear the voice of the Lorelei." says Jean Cocteau in the album notes, ''but the Lorelei was a danger to be feared. You are not." In the album an enthusiastic British audience claps, cheers and laughs along with the performer, suggesting that beyond the bored and enigmatic smile of the screen Marlene. there is a skilled and warm variety artist who can pout, frown, tease, worry, smile and flirt in a constant...
...mere vision of such total automation for industry has touched off a siren of alarm among U.S. labor unions; they fear that the already swift spread toward automation will throw thousands of workers out of jobs. Before a congressional committee investigating the stock market last week (see WALL STREET), General Motors President Harlow H. Curtice took special care to debunk the bugaboo. Said he: "Automation is the making of tools to produce more efficiently . . . It's progress...
...appeals, although they were more concerned about the effect among Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's armed forces (some of whom have received individual messages), and security measures were tightened. Now the Chinese Nationalists fear that, if the impression of U.S. feebleness and indecision spreads in Asia, the Red siren calls will be so much the stronger-and will fail on ever more receptive ears...
...lamely: "I guess every person has a little larceny in his heart." Dial Tone. In Pacific Beach, Calif., telephone repairmen uncrossed the wires leading into the home of Robert J. Schroeder after Schroeder and his neighbors complained that every time his telephone rang it set off the air raid siren across the street...