Word: sirening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...button. To accommodate their four children, the Lawfords have converted Mayer's garden greenhouse into a playhouse; though the Pacific is right off their front door, they have a fresh water swimming pool that is the envy of such neighbors as Actor Brian Aherne and Septuagenarian Siren Mae West...
...siren cries of nothing down, easy credit and pay later have made the installment plan an essential part of the U.S. economy. In the process, consumers have run up a steadily rising personal debt of $54 billion, much of it in unpaid interest. Economists do not find the figure unduly alarming, but many of them worry that too few consumers realize the true cost of credit...
...Siren Talk. When Khrushchev reopened the Berlin issue five weeks ago, at Vienna, some observers cried "old stuff." But there was one big difference: a truculent tone that said: "This time something's got to be done." So far, John Kennedy has been as firm as Ike in turning thumbs down on the Soviet demands. But a few less-thoughtful U.S. spokesmen have seemed receptive to the siren talk of "negotiation...
...Times, University of Illinois Graduate Chancellor, now 33, joined NBC news in 1950, went around Chicago in a mobile unit painted like a police car and equipped with a flashing red light and siren. He chased cop calls, once sprawled on the pavement and narrated a gunfight with bullets whanging overhead, also covered an oil refinery fire, continuing his broadcast even while running through falling debris, although his voice went up about seven octaves en route...
What distinguishes bluegrass is 1) the fact that all instruments are unamplified (folk fanciers have long deplored the siren-wailing electric guitars of less authentic country singers), and 2) the employment of a five-string banjo technique known affectionately as "pickin' scruggs." This technique, which moved one astigmatic observer to compare Scruggs's achievement on the banjo to Paganini's on the violin, involves a clawlike motion with thumb and two fingers that serves to transform the banjo player from a plunk-plunking accompanist into a virtuoso soloist. Nobody has heard anything to equal it, says...