Word: sirening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...streets. The plague has begun. The dead will be carried away in tramcars. There is a panicked whisper of running feet, a scream, a distant moan. The chorus is a clamor of wails-"the rats, the rats." Trombones trail down the declining moan of an air-raid siren, and the orchestra shrieks in echoed despair. In a long, fatal moment, the music dies on the slowly fading tremor of a gong. And in that long moment last week, a hushed audience at London's Royal Festival Hall perceived the chilling profundity of Roberto Gerhard's The Plague...
...modern arrangements of any big band since Kenton's, though Ferguson sometimes swamps his sidemen with his outer-space approach to the trumpet. Every so often, like Kirk Douglas in Young Man with a Horn, he gets up and tries for the groovy sound of an ambulance siren. But most of the time the boys roll along smoothly in spite...
...Matter of Seduction? With Europe secure, France has turned boldly to the other continents. It pours men and money into its former colonies in North and black Africa, restores and broadens the image of French culture throughout the Middle East. Warbling a persuasive siren song, French diplomacy stirs up old affections and new troubles in Asia, tempts Latin America with the prospect of being pro-Western, anti-Communist and anti-American all at once. As the two nuclear giants, the U.S. and Russia, hesitantly grope towards better understanding, France treads heavily on their toes. For months France has quietly been...
Undaunted, President Charles de Gaulle last week proclaimed his plans in even more intensive siren tones. He proposed the neutralization of all of Southeast Asia, declaring that "we see the world as it is." And to cap his nation's re-emergence as a world power, he recognized the Communist regime in Peking as the government of China, brushing aside protests from Washington that the move would seriously damage U.S. policy in Asia...
Grudging Hands. A fine drizzle fell over the 14,000-ft.-high plateau as Lechin arrived at Siglo Veinte. With him were the Archbishop of La Paz, U.S. Consul Charles Thomas, TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott, and six other newsmen. A mine siren sounded, and 3,500 grimy miners gathered in front of the union hall. Many of them were in an ugly mood. "Down with the stooges of Yankee imperialism," they chanted. "To the wall! To the wall!" A note of urgent pleading in his voice, Lechin told them that President Paz Estenssoro had promised a fair trial...