Word: sirening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hollywood star's motereade, accompanied by a siren-blasting Cambridge police escort, will cross the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge and journey up the avenue to Holyoke St. At the Pudding, Miss Remick will meet such dignitaries as Dean Watson, Edward A. Crane '35, mayor of Cambridge, and the entire cast of this year's Pudding Theatrical, "No Hard Feelings...
...Nilsson and the Met, it was a stunning triumph. Wisely underplaying the adolescent siren, she seduced instead with the flashing beauty of her voice. She sang as though her lungs were made of the finest Swedish steel...
Churchill wielded greater personal power during the five wartime years than any other Prime Minister in British history. No detail was too small to escape his attention as strategist or statesman. Clad in the siren suit that he invented, a cigar clamped grotesquely in the midst of his cherubic countenance, he never tired of inspecting troops or chatting with victims of the blitz, often had to be dragged protesting from a rooftop as London shuddered under a Luftwaffe attack...
Perle's guests got printed maps of the fastest routes to the villa. To get the folks back home, Perle provided a siren escorted shuttle service of minibuses, each marked PERLE'S PARTY LINE. The Mesta affairs were Atlantic City's top gate-crashing attractions-despite the fact that Perle herself was everlastingly vigilant, standing at the door with pencil and guest list in hand...
...Siren Song. Where was everyone? Well, Washington Democrat "Scoop" Jackson was at home dedicating a new forest service laboratory. New Mexico Democrat Clinton Anderson was in Albuquerque powwowing with state Indian organizations. Utah's Senators, Democrat Frank Moss and Republican Wallace Bennett, were at the annual conference of the Mormon Church in Salt Lake City. Nebraska Republican Roman Hruska was in Omaha at state Republican Founders Day ceremonies. "When the siren song of politics calls," said one Senate aide, "they can't resist...