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Word: sirens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Named for the fabled siren who sat atop the rock, clad chiefly in her golden tresses which she kept combing with a golden comb. This was calculated to distract sailors, who invariably foundered their boats on the rock and drowned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: As Long as She Sings | 8/14/1950 | See Source »

Booby Trap. In Buffalo, John Sheer was arrested when he tried to drive away with a police car, pushed the siren button instead of the starter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 14, 1950 | 8/14/1950 | See Source »

Greater Evil. In Ventnor, N.J., the city's new curfew siren was silenced after parents complained that although it warned children off the streets at 9:45 p.m., it also woke the babies who had already been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 17, 1950 | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

...lest anyone think he was going to fill his ears with wax to keep out political siren songs, Tom Dewey quickly reminded his hearers that he had twice before "retired" from public office like this. Dewey and Republican leaders had already agreed on whom they wanted as Tom Dewey's successor in Albany: ruddy-cheeked, back-slapping 74-year-old Lieut. Governor Joe Hanley, onetime jockey, Presbyterian minister, lawyer and silver-tongued speaker on the Chautauqua circuit. In case any Democrats wanted to make something of Hanley's age, Dewey said pointedly, let them remember that their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: But Not Goodbye | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

Dashingly, painted in bright colors, the huge Canvas swarms with festive Bruxellois, many in carnival costume. Almost lost in the riotous shuffle is the dejected figure of Christ mounted on a donkey. The quiet center of a scene as shrill and unsettling as an ambulance siren, He is one week from Golgotha...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Shrill Entry | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

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