Word: sirening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ceremonial blast from its 5 o'clock siren, the first oil refinery to rise in southern Germany was inaugurated in Karlsruhe last week. Built by Jersey Standard, the $57.5-million plant will process 3,600,000 tons of crude a year-but its significance goes beyond these impressive figures. The new plant will draw its crude from a new and vital petroleum artery: the Rhone River Valley pipeline, which provides the first link from the Mediterranean into oil-hungry south-central Europe and helps to meet the commercial threat of the Russian pipe network now reaching toward the West...
...trouble has been caused by a flood of Negroes over the past two decades. As they have streamed into the city, whites have moved out, until Washington has the highest percentage of Negroes of any major U.S. city-53.9% of a total 764,000 population. Lured north by the siren song of federal jobs to be had for the asking, most come ill-educated and ill-prepared. Of those who do get jobs, many work for less than 75? an hour. Others stay unemployed, huddle together six to eight in slum rooms, become desperate. What does a man do then...
...Soviet agent sent to lure Bond to his doom was a voluptuous siren named Tatiana Romanova; though her "body belonged to the state," Boudoirsman Bond swiftly restored it to private enterprise. In one adventure, he did away with "the first of the great Negro criminals" who used voodoo the better to serve Marxism. On another occasion, he liquidated a sadistic Russian agent who had secretly taken over a Caribbean isle and was all ready to divert U.S. missiles launched from nearby Cape Canaveral. In one of his most brilliant coups, Bond thwarted a SMERSH fiend named Auric Goldfinger, who tried...
With that, he put his economy-size package at the door of Congress. It contained a siren song the words of which would probably be forgotten, but the melody would linger...
...Snow's before him. But since Snow's Two Cultures, science in America has received tremendous popularization, on television and in magazines and newspapers. Piel finds most of this popular work distressing in its approach. "The principal appeal in the popularization of science is still the one-note siren song of utility...