Word: patroled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hustler. In Cambridge, Mass., a patrolman tore up a ticket for speeding after the clergyman-driver explained, "Officer, you have to hustle if you're going to save souls." Mother Love. In the Marianas Islands, G.I. Jimmy Anderson, wandering about on patrol, came across a hen sitting on a nest which contained one egg and one live hand grenade...
...patrol picked up Papen in the Ruhr. They found him dining alone in elegant splendor. He wore his accustomed knickerbockers (he is proud of his legs); on a couch rested a Tyrolean hat with a rakish feather. "There are no German soldiers here," he said in impeccable English. " I can't imagine what you want with...
...Allied patrol crossed the Ruhr River to parley with the German major commanding Duisburg, and called on him to surrender. He said nein. Nowhere else around the perimeter was there any visible inclination to give...
...first reactions were frightening. In the Keramas, 77th Division patrols heard inhuman wailing and bursting hand grenades all through the first night ashore. In the morning a patrol came upon a scene of horror. More than 150 fear-maddened men, women & children had killed themselves or one another...
...front were so weakened that the stalemate was broken The 4th got into gear with the 3rd and 5th. The drive for the north shore was speeded from a slow crawl to a slow march. On the 19th day of the battle for Iwo, a 28-man patrol from Company A of the 21st Regiment (part of Major General Graves B. Erskine's 3rd Division) broke through to the northeast coast and slid down the cliffs to the beach. To General Schmidt, they sent back a canteen of sea water, marked "for approval-not for consumption...