Word: patroled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just before sunrise, an armored car and "three trucks, all manned by men in British uniform, drove into Ben Yehuda Street in Jerusalem's Jewish shopping district. A suspicious British police patrol followed, found the trucks abandoned and spewing smoke. Seconds later they disintegrated with a blast that crumpled nearby hotels, apartments and shops, ripped out windows for a mile around. In Ben Yehuda's rubble at least 52 lay dead, more than 100 wounded...
...dusk when tall, lanky Major Winston W. Ehrgott of New York City turned his jeep into the flagstone courtyard of the Greek headquarters at Komotini, in eastern Thrace. An American adviser with the Greek Army, he had been promised a chance to observe a cavalry patrol that would go out that night against nearby Communist Andartes (guerrillas). Inside headquarters, a beribboned Greek colonel offered him a glass of cognac. A night patrol? Surely the American was joking. The colonel explained: "We never move cavalry at night. Horses fall down; you might run into ambushes...
...patrol wound on: to Mavromati where, a few days previously, Andartes had carried off 40 men and boys; to Skinia, where the guerrillas had rounded up women and girls. The captain asked one villager if he had given food or clothing to the guerrillas. The villager shrugged: "Do you think I would be alive if I hadn't?" The other Greek officers stared at their boots in some embarrassment. Technically, this man could be arrested for "aiding rebellion." But here, that made no sense...
...Everywhere & Nowhere." The dawn was breaking beyond Turkish Thrace as the patrol, swinging back toward headquarters by another route, clattered into Kalamokastron. Here, the chagrined Greek captain discovered, the Andartes had raided that very night but had left hurriedly when the grapevine-remarkably swift for an area without formal communications-brought news that the patrol...
...identified as a 37-year-old ex-convict, is one of three missing gunmen, the only participants in the January 9 robbery not yet rounded up, police disclosed. Apparently suspicious at the sight of patrol cars cruising in his area, the suspect dashed to his garage and escaped the police net in a tan automobile bearing Florida plates...