Word: patrol
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last Patrol. Anderson's hero is one of those perfectionist noncoms who make the difference between a bunch of men and an outfit. Sergeant Stanley need not have volunteered for what turned out to be his last patrol; he was about to be rotated home, and he had proved himself more than once to be the bravest and most effective noncom in the company. To get through the surrounding Chinese in broad daylight, ford a river, get in touch with the Dutch and then return was a job no man in his right senses would...
Even before last week's TV plug, the kits had begun to catch on, and hundreds of laymen's groups, from the General Electric plant at Erie, Pa., to the New York Civil Air Patrol, to soldiers at Ft. Belvoir, Va., were discussing common, everyday problems of conduct. As a result of the TV promotion, the National Council's Department of the Church and Economic Life got a fat flood of requests for the kits, plans to distribute thousands by year...
...illicit dagga traffic has been on the rise recently, and local police have long suspected the existence of some great new source of the drug. On patrol of the foothills lying beneath the great, rugged Drakensberg Mountains a fortnight ago, a party of seven policemen discovered one such source-a vast valley planted solidly with the grey-green weed. They sent a messenger to the nearest police station to report their find, then began tearing out the plants one by one. Suddenly from the mountain above there came a fierce Zulu battle cry. Down the hill raced a horde...
...year-old Dedan Kimathi now spends his days making wild speeches to the jungle trees and his nights raving endlessly. He lies on a litter of branches, blubbering and blabbering about reform in the Liberation army, while his friends search the woods for monkeys to eat. Whenever a police patrol comes near, the 20 loyal henchmen (and teen-age henchwomen) who still surround him hustle Kimathi into a nearby cave and gag him to keep him quiet...
...denied any chance of easy attack. Merino claimed the whole Second (Jungle) Division of 12,000 men (the whole army numbers 55,000 to 60,000). He also claimed the navy's Amazon fleet: seven 200-to 500-ton gunboats, and about thirty 10-to 50-ton river patrol craft. Moreover, most of the troops were inaccessibly camped in scores of jungle outposts, and even the Iquitos headquarters was isolated from Lima by 700 miles of mountains and jungles. Merino's strategy obviously was to sit tight, with an impressive force-in-being that other garrison commanders...