Word: sirens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Piano Concerto, which opens with an inferno of featureless percussion and sizzling .strings, continues with a slow movement of steamy mystery, and winds up with a recurring Latin American dance rhythm. Eeriest moments come when a flute seems to swell and shrink like a small-scale fire siren...
...preferable to Asians, but today's Asia is impatient and pragmatic. If India fails to make rapid economic progress or even if her rate of economic growth lags too far behind that of Red China, most of Asia, including India itself, may succumb in time to the clanking siren song of Communism...
Many a Clevelander was apprehensive while the new tunnel was under construction. Lesser tunnels at the same site jangled nerves with their dreadful racket. This tunnel has an enormous muffler in which even the loudest sounds get lost. A screaming siren can be carried into the muffler and become inaudible in a few yards. When the tunnel is in operation, its noise is reduced to levels acceptable at least to N.A.C.A.'s hardened neighbors. The tunnel works-late at night only, so its inordinate thirst for electricity will not slow the city of Cleveland...
...wealthy lush who catapulted his Jaguar into the swimming pool ("Every time I go swimming, I keep tasting gin and ethyl"). There was the child-hating old woman who, for the Easter egg hunt, hid the eggs deep in the local cacti. There was the would-be siren on a man spree whom Barbara dubbed "Miss Ladydog." And there were a few prize phonies whom Barbara learned to shun by the chromium on their cars and the fact that their "checks were least likely to succeed...
...language to which Pravda readers are accustomed, is as useful as a 20-year treaty of friendship. Set side by side with smiling photographs, it will doubtless convince the Russian and satellite peoples that Britain, along with India, Burma and the rest, has fallen for Moscow's new siren song...