Word: sirening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jacobson started the delicate job of identifying the moths' chemical siren song. He began with 500,000 female gypsy pupae collected in Spain and Connecticut. When the virgin moths (female gypsy moths lose their siren scent at the same time as their virginity) emerged, the tips of their abdomens were snipped off, dropped into benzene...
...Rome, and this truth is not lost upon movie queens who respire to greater things. When the Olympic Games began last August, Elizabeth Taylor showed up in a décolleté creation that momentarily paralyzed athletes and spectators alike. One who is well-equipped to compete with Liz, Siren Gina Lollobrigida, hove into view at the Roman movie premiere of Ben Hur, caused as big an eye goggling as the chariot race on the screen...
...much of it involving a holy relic that the villains want to get their hands on. Joseph Gotten honors cinematic tradition as a U.S. war correspondent. He wears an eye patch and is dressed in what looks like an Italian tailor's interpretation of Winston Churchill's siren suit. Nunnally Johnson is deeply involved; he wrote the film and directed...
...first siren whoosh of the commercial jetliner not only changed man's notion of time and travel by shrinking the earth some 40%, but set off an earth-bound revolution that is transforming the whole façade and function of the jet age's gateway: the airport. Nations and cities are taking a searching second look at the airports that served the piston-plane age -and finding them wanting. The result is an immense worldwide building boom to adapt them to the new and challenging problems-for pilots, passengers and cities -of the 600 m.p.h. jet planes...
...died. This was one of three events that probably clouded the sunlit hours of the early comedies and prologued the dark vision of the great tragedies. The second was Shakespeare's-embittered love affair with the unknown "dark lady of the sonnets." Biographers have found traces of this siren's raven hair, pitch-black eyes, jigging walk, panting breath and wanton ways in the characters of Ophelia, Cressida and Cleopatra. The third event was the arrest and imprisonment of Shakespeare's patron, the Earl of Southampton, for helping Essex plot against the Queen. In combination, these events...