Word: patrol
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...newsmen, dyspeptic Havana Rebel Chieftain Dr. Faustino Pérez alibied the "minor setback" in the capital as caused mostly by "delayed public reaction," insisted: "Our units are intact." Broadcasting from the clandestine rebel station, Castro unleashed a farrago of nonsensical victory claims, e.g., "There is no rebel patrol that has not scored a resounding success." He added an unlikely atrocity tale: "In the Sierra Maestra peasants' huts are being bombed with napalm that came from the United States...
...cleared away many brambles, but on one point no agreement seemed possible. Keenly aware that his own people would almost certainly repudiate him if he shut off all aid to the Algerian rebels, Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba flatly refused a French proposal of a neutral commission to patrol the Algerian-Tunisian frontier. France's right-wing Independents, clinging blindly to the conviction that France can and must suppress the Algerian rebellion, were equally insistent that, if Bourguiba refused, France must reopen its complaint against Tunisia in the U.N. Security Council, even if the East River air should...
With the upper hand, Batista drove boldly around the city while his cops proceeded to make their supremacy complete. When a patrol car radioed that it had clashed with rebels and had "a dead man and a prisoner," the dispatcher ordered: "Shoot him." At midafternoon, cops burst into a boardinghouse, grabbed three young men who were leaders of Cuba's lay Catholic Action movement, which sympathizes with Castro. Two hours later their stripped, tortured and bullet-torn bodies were turned over to relatives. Total dead...
...nice mutation you got there; it's not what you'd call real mink, but I wouldn't worry about it if I was you. To the untrained eye, there's no difference in quality"). Abashed, disheartened and in disgrace, he volunteered as patrol supervisor for a group of eight-year-old junior Rangers. His methods were unorthodox. The first course was artificial respiration-"what to do in case of drowning or being electrocuted." Slezak had the answer to that. "You call the fire department, naturally. There's an emergency truck they got, with oxygen...
Eight or ten men will be added to the night patrol force in an attempt to "hit the entire area every night," according to police officials. The "area" involved is bordered by the Charles River, Boylston St., Cambridge St., Trowbridge St., and Putnam...