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...boss, had canceled all police leaves, called up 5,000 armed reservists of the Citizen Force, and ordered the arrest of thousands of potential native troublemakers. As Republic Day approached, police in armored cars rumbled menacingly through native townships. At night, helicopters with searchlights hovered overhead on the lookout for illegal gatherings...
...broom handles, threatened to set fire to the camp. The melee was broken up by a flying squad from the sheriff's office, which later stormed into a meeting at union headquarters and arrested six union leaders. Armed with shotguns and pistols, growers prowled their fields on the lookout for demonstrators, checked with each other by short-wave radios. But the growers shunned violence lest the Mexican government withdraw all the braceros from the lettuce farms...
...Roquefort Association is not a gourmet society. It is the organizer of a volunteer group of private eyes made up of cheese importers, distributors and salesmen. They keep a constant lookout in restaurants and stores to see that no waiter palms off less than true blue Roquefort. Genuine Roquefort is a trademarked blue cheese made from ewe's milk and aged in caves near Roquefort, France. The association's amateur sleuths inspect grocery counters, sample Roquefort salad dressing in restaurants, keep a sharp nose to customs lists of cheese imports...
Some of Hillerich's best friends are trees. Though some of the timber used in his bats is grown on the company's 500-acre tract in Pennsylvania, he is always on the lookout for good timber. H. & B. has found that white ash grown on eastern or northern slopes has a bat's best qualities-resiliency and strength. The most important ingredient is careful labor. So skilled an art is hand fashioning that H. & B. has only four qualified bat turners, overseen by 65-year-old Fritz Bickel. Bat turning, says Bickel, "is like painting...
...chickie (teen-age-gang talk)-to act as lookout...