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Word: sirening (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...named chief of its Public Security group, William Gunn, Bangor Punta is rapidly becoming the Abercrombie & Fitch of law and order. Fully equipped by the company, a cop could use a Bangor Punta Dominator radarscope to spot a speeder or car thief, signal him to stop with a Dominator siren, pull out a Smith & Wesson .38 and pull on a Lake Erie gas mask, flush his quarry with Lake Erie tear gas, immobilize him with Mace, bring him to with a Stephenson resuscitator, check him for alcohol with a Breathalyzer, and slap on Smith & Wesson handcuffs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: MAKING CRIME PAY | 1/3/1969 | See Source »

...that lady? Why, the siren of Gilda, Salome and Miss Sadie Thompson, Rita Hayworth, now a matronly 50, and conducting an NBC-TV interview in her Beverly Hills manse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 27, 1968 | 12/27/1968 | See Source »

Priests who leave the ministry to marry generally must contend with hostility from two major sources: their parents and the Catholic hierarchy. "Many in my family were ready to consider my wife just a beautiful siren who had tempted me away," explains Frank Ostrowski, 38, who left his Minnesota teaching post after eleven years as a priest. "But I finally got my parents to accept what to them was almost like death-that their dear, darling son was no longer a priest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Catholics: Priests in the Secular World | 9/20/1968 | See Source »

...mercenaries and Congolese troops. Their assignment is to rescue an outpost of helpless whites. Even before the battle begins, however, Brown is forced to restrain Taylor from murdering a murder-bent former Nazi officer. The prize of the battle, once it is joined, is blonde Yvette Mimieux, a sympathetic siren who turns Taylor on by a combination of concupiscence and conscience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Dark of the Sun | 7/26/1968 | See Source »

...gallery had been removed. OUCH! Gallerygoers could warm their fingers on three electrified aluminum columns that Sculptor John Goodyear calls Heat Sequence. And they could sit upon and be jiggled about by Royce Dendler's mechanized box titled Vibrate. By pressing buttons, they could activate David Jacobs' siren and two aluminum-and-rubber resonators, entitled collectively Mother's Mechanical Wonderful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exhibitions: Now, Op Is for Options | 7/19/1968 | See Source »

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