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Word: patrol (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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University Police have assigned three plain clothesmen to patrol the Harkness Commons at night, in the wake of stealing from this area, Chief of University Police Matthew Toohy reported yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three Plainclothesmen Will Patrol Harkness Common Area at Night | 10/6/1954 | See Source »

...cabin behind were 15 ministers -chaplains of the Civil Air Patrol bound from Burbank, Calif, to a convention in Sacramento. When the word to hit the silk came back to them, Major Bertil Von Norman, pastor of the West Hollywood Presbyterian Church and chaplain of the wing, called for prayer, and the heads bowed in silence. "Thy will be done . . . Thy will be done . . ." prayed Chaplain Von Norman to himself. Two minutes later, while the burning plane banked, he stood at the open door and began sending the sky pilots off into the air, one by one, with a slap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: On a Wing & a Prayer | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

Secret Weapon. In Columbus, Ohio, Policemen George Kegg and Ed Welch saw Pettis Adams run from a restaurant, threw their patrol car into second gear to give chase, caught their man when the noise of their backfire made Adams stop running and raise his hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 27, 1954 | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

Lawyer Vishinsky's answer crackled with sarcasm. The periodic patrol flights along the Siberian coast were "peeping into other people's gardens." He denounced the "very stupid carelessness" of the first Navy reports. Said Vishinsky: "Accordingly, I say that this entire fairy tale about a poor Neptune being shot down . . . will certainly not hold water." Of U.S. reports that the plane was on weather and submarine patrol, he said: "It appears . . . this means practice in testing the radar strength and the radar installations [on the Siberian coast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: What Sort of Precipitancy? | 9/20/1954 | See Source »

Spice of Life. In Emeryville, Calif., Patrolman Leo Neuberger, rebuked for riding in his patrol car 20 blocks away from his beat, explained to superiors: "This town is so small you get tired going around in circles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 20, 1954 | 9/20/1954 | See Source »

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