Word: patrol
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...today's city streets-half-deserted at night to television-tarts chat cheerfully about their business to the Army's midnight patrol. Illegitimacy, in the words of one commissioner, "isn't even a tragedy, much less a social stigma." So few derelicts approach the Army's mercy seat these days that the shuffle of one man toward salvation at a recent London meeting has been the talk of the Army ever since. And the welfare state, with its complex of psychiatric and rehabilitation centers, prompts the downtrodden to turn to government instead of God. Said General...
Dual State. As the fighting flared, a handful of U.N. observers arrived in Lebanon, under the command of a Norwegian major general with the irresistible name of Odd Bull. It would be nearly hopeless for them to patrol some 180 miles of mountain border between Syria and Lebanon-a job that would take a force of perhaps 5,000 men. But they were empowered to report, not to halt, any infiltration of the border. The fact was that, at the moment, the real difficulty was not so much the direct outside help as the maneuverings of Pan-Arab elements inside...
...depressed over De Gaulle's political eclipse and the decline of the French empire. Delbecque volunteered for military service in Algeria. During a patrol with the famed "Black Commandos" he was struck, as if by revelation, with the solution to the Algerian War. Poking into a ramshackle hut during a search for concealed arms, he saw on the wall three photographs: one of the late Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, one of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, and one of De Gaulle. The Moslem owner of the hut, asked why he kept those particular pictures, replied: "Because...
...Flint, a tough, wiry Korean war veteran, had been badly wounded by an exploding mine on Mount Scopus two years before. He set forth immediately for the Arab village of Issawiya, on the Jordanian sector of Mount Scopus. Checking fast, he learned that four members of an Israeli police patrol lay wounded at the edge of the Israeli zone where they had been hit in the first shooting; other Israelis crawling up to rescue them appeared to be pinned down among the rocks and scrub cypress trees by continuing machine gun and rifle fire. At 4 o'clock, with...
...black B-26 turned out to sea after bombing the Indonesian port of Amboina, guns opened up from ground installations and government patrol boats in the harbor. The B-26 shuddered, and two men bailed out before it died in a splash of sea spray. One, an Indonesian rebel, was fished out of the water. The other got his parachute fouled in a palm tree on a coral reef, and, in freeing himself, fell to the ground and broke his right thigh. For the Indonesians, he was an impressive catch. His name: Allen Lawrence Pope. Nationality: U.S.A. Florida-born Allen...