Word: sirens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...troops into a European army before the cries for a free and unified Germany can thwart the plan. So far, 76-year-old Chancellor Adenauer has managed to avoid the accusation that he seeks to keep Germany divided. But his popularity is precarious; the lure of the Soviet siren is strong, and he has but 17 months left in office (if a parliamentary vote of confidence could topple the government in West Germany, Adenauer might well have fallen by now). Last week Adenauer, fighting against time, announced that West Germany would sign a peace "contract" with the Western occupying powers...
...citizen of New Century Three who is saved from a loveless life by a siren named LARA 339-827. "I would like to be in a mating booth with her . . . the full authorized twenty minutes," he mutters to himself, after brief study of her "rhythmic" torso. Author Walt Sheldon gives him the torso for keeps by bundling the pair of them into a rocket and heading it for Mars...
...What Made Him Do It?" Outside, a siren wailed and faded. Two cops brought in a 15-year-old Negro on a stretcher. "A kid with the big ideas shot out of him," volunteered one of the cops. "Tried to hold up a grocery, so the groceryman goes for his .38 and lets the kid have it." Almost as an afterthought he added, "The gun the kid had was empty to begin with...
...conscience of the world"), Viva Zapata! is good, muscular horse opera. Director Elia Kazan has filled it with vigorous action-horsemen charging, ammunition trains being dynamited and peons fighting. Striking sequence: President Francisco Madero being shot down by the military in the glare of automobile headlights while a siren drowns out his cries...
...Towline Rarts. The storm got worse. At 3 a.m., now less than 55 miles from port, Carlsen and Dancy were awakened by a blast from the Turmoil's siren. The towline had snapped. Aboard the Turmoil, an engineer heard the cable "racing [in] on us as if it was being pulled by elastic. I had to turn away, like in the movies when you don't want others to know you're crying...