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Word: sirens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Such details as an air-raid siren on the top ofWidener Library showed the College's all-outeffort at war mobilization...

Author: By Tazeen Ahmad, | Title: Campus Arms For Fight | 6/7/1994 | See Source »

Here at Harvard we're lucky. Widener's intoxicating stacks provide inspiration for those who cannot ignore writing's siren call...

Author: By Lorraine Lezama, | Title: Authors And Acolytes | 3/8/1994 | See Source »

...power behind the song, from Dion's new album The Colour of My Love (550 Music/Epic), is her bring-the-house-down voice, which turns an old, schmaltzy ballad into a soaring pop aria. That voice glides effortlessly from deep whispers to dead-on high notes, a sweet siren that combines force with grace. And it is not just a studio creation -- as Americans have had a chance to see. Dion has a concert special running on the Disney Channel through March and is just wrapping up her first U.S. tour as a headliner -- a 17-day, 10-city trek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: The Power of Celine Dion | 3/7/1994 | See Source »

...winner seemed so innocuous--with nobody to pass to in the Harvard zone, he flicked the puck on net and goalie Aaron Israel, hardly expecting his dice roll to come up snake-eyes. A simple dump-in, nothing more. But suddenly, the clock froze at 1:55, the red siren blared, and the Beanpot final was over...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Eagles Nip Crimson For Beanpot Title | 2/15/1994 | See Source »

...that matter), the songs on The Raincoats seem to stutter, or stumble, or struggle ahead, with Aspinall's violin in the lead; the momentum they do achieve builds up within the course of each song. Standout pieces like "Fairytale in the Supermarket" and "Black and White" (which begins with siren-like saxophone bleats) fall together as they go along, as if the improv techniques of free jazz had suddenly been discovered to apply to rock and roll, or as if-and I think this is the coolest way to hear it--the Raincoats were less interested in making already-constructed...

Author: By Steve L. Burt, | Title: ONE CHORD WONDERS | 2/3/1994 | See Source »

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