Word: patroled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only one call was issued for the patrol wagon during the weekend, to confine two brawlers found alone in the large building at the intersection of Bow and Mt. Auburn Streets at 10 o'clock Saturday night. They insisted they were working overtime on a trade publication, but could produce no satisfactory evidence to this effect...
...great day came last week, but thick clouds spoiled the fun for much of the eastern U.S. Astronomers, forewarned, had readied more precise instruments than the earthbound human eye. At Boston, a group of Harvardmen borrowed a Coast Guard patrol plane, found a patch of open sky near Nova Scotia. The meteors, they reported, streaked across the sky about 17 per minute, most of them as bright as Venus. Said Harvard's famed Dr. Harlow Shapley: "It was the richest show we've had in this century...
...Navy was off first. At Perth, West Australia, a twin-engined Lockheed Neptune patrol bomber, stripped of all but the most rudimentary radio, set out for the U.S. or beyond. Secretly the crew of the Truculent Turtle hoped to get to Bermuda, half way round the world...
...patrol car of the Mounties blocked their way. The vets, 200 strong, jounced it aside, crashed through a high wooden barricade and bowled over patrol guards. They hurled aside a second car block, tangled with 30 Mounty reinforcements. The Mounties seized Hanratty, but let him go when the crowd closed in, and stood aside...
...into the act with a dispatch from a Jerusalem staffer: "The story was told in Palestine and Trans-Jordan bars and found its way into print. . . . The Gazelle Boys now number five. . . . One, the wags say, is being trained by oil companies to do a 50 m.p.h. pipeline patrol. Another . . . is being taught English by professors . . . at Beirut, so they can learn what the gazelles talk about besides love...