Word: sirening
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...imagine being whisked to Algiers, where you are surrounded by fugitive Black Panthers, white-bread revolutionaries and Algerian police. Then picture this: a mysterious siren comes swinging to your rescue, sweeps you off your feet and promises to deliver you from your nightmare by marrying you. For a honeymoon, she wants you to meet her folks at their estate in Afghanistan. The folks, though, turn out to be four U.S. narcs with cuffs and extradition papers...
...ability to surprise. Only a beclouded seer would limit her future to charitable work or any other single strand of activity. As she adjusts to the single life, she may explore options, possibly even commercial ones. Who knows--in health, fashion or, like Jackie Onassis, in publishing? Diana's siren song is, Stay Tuned...
...dominant strain of the Republican Party. Buchanan sought to capture George Wallace's constituency for the Republican Party. As early as 1970, he was advising Nixon to exploit the roiling economic anxieties of the middle class for political gain, the same voters to whom he is singing his siren song now. "We should aim our strategy primarily at disaffected Democrats, at blue-collar workers, and at working-class ethnics," Buchanan told Nixon, according to Nixon's 1978 memoir. As a speechwriter, Buchanan used Vice President Spiro Agnew as a kind of ventriloquist's dummy for his white-hot resentments...
...including President Clinton and former Presidents Jimmy Carter and George Bush, gathered in Jerusalem as assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was laid to rest on Mount Herzl, burial ground of Israeli heroes. Grieving Israelis exhausted the country's supply of mourning candles and stood weeping as a two-minute siren sounded. p.l.o. Chairman Yasser Arafat, who did not attend the funeral, later made a quiet 90-minute visit to Tel Aviv to offer condolences to Rabin's widow Leah...
...siren call of Friskopp and Silverstein is one that gay and lesbian professionals would do well to ignore. Many people who are themselves as gay or lesbian later realize that they were mistaken in their self-labelling. It is far better for a gay professional to remain closeted, leaving himself open to the possibility of later fitting in and leading the life of a straight person, than to publicly and vocally commit himself to being a member of a group that by its own account faces discrimination at every turn...