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• n  a sea nymph (part woman and part bird) supposed to lure sailors to destruction on the rocks where the nymphs lived
• n  a woman who is considered to be dangerously seductive
• n  a warning signal that is a loud wailing sound
• n  an acoustic device producing a loud often wailing sound as a signal or warning
• n  eellike aquatic North American salamander with small forelimbs and no hind limbs; have permanent external gills

• No amount of warning, however shrill, ever quite prepares a people for the air-raid siren's scream.
• Drudge hates the word blogger, yet his exclusive about the former President and intern Monica Lewinsky set out an animated-gif siren for an army of armchair pundits to follow.
• The flames, smoke, sirens real.

• Siren
• enchantress
• temptress
• Delilah
• femme fatale

News & Articles

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• Kendall County Residents Say Tornado Siren Didn’t Go Off During Storm
  A tornado warning bulletin for Kendall County came in from the National Weather Service at 5:15 p.m., but a siren at an Oswego subdivision was silent when the county activated the warning system.
  June 13, 2013 - CBS Chicago
• Jefferson Labs to test tornado warning siren Friday
  On Friday June 14, 2013 at 10:30 am the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility will conduct a test of its tornado warning siren.
  June 13, 2013 - WTKR Norfolk
• Siren at the park is now working
  PLYMOUTH — The tornado and hazardous warning siren located at the park has been repaired and is now operational, according to Emergency Management Director Clyde Avery.
  June 12, 2013 - The Pilot News

Quotes

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• Jeff Sessions in Bloomberg
  I don't believe that Judge Sotomayor has the deep-rooted convictions necessary to resist the siren call of judicial activism,Sessions wrote in an opinion piece in USA Today prior to yesterday's committee meeting.
• Mitch McConnell in Christian Science Monitor
  The alarm bells on our nation's fiscal condition have now become a siren,Senate Republican minority leader Mitch McConnell said. "If anyone has any doubts that this burden on future generations is unsustainable, they're gone."
• Lara Logan in Washington Post
  Nobody likes to read about themselves like that, especially the way it's been sensationalized,Logan says of the coverage that spread to the front page of the New York Post, which called her a "sexy CBS siren" and "in-bedded reporter."...