Word: patroled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...celebrated "Red Ball" truck highway across France, Piper Cubs at low altitude now patrol the roads, radio the nearest salvage depot when they spot a breakdown. Behind the fighting lines, the "cannibalizing" of tanks and guns (piecing together new units from dismantled wrecks) has been put on an assembly-line basis. But even miracles have their limits: there came a point where the supply miracle had been stretched to the snapping point. Organization and improvisation had done their utmost. The Allied armies slowed down, stopped...
Frank ("The Voice") Sinatra, patent-leather-lunged idol, opened a three-week engagement at Manhattan's mammoth Paramount Theater, got the usual screaming reception from 30,000 bow-tied, bobby-soxed fans, who caused such a commotion that the Police Department responded with 421 policemen, 20 policewomen, 20 patrol cars, two trucks. The excitement had scarcely died down two days later, when an 18-year-old boy stood up in the theater, threw an egg that smacke'd Sinatra squarely between the eyes. The egger, one Alexander Ivanovich Dorogokupetz, was mobbed by Sinatra's fans but rescued...
...wife and three children in California. Mike Wolfe thought of the baby daughter he had never seen, Earling Zaeske of his new son. They also thought of the baby daughter Demarest Lloyd had never seen and never would. Said the squadron diary: "Bernie McLaughlin landed from combat air patrol and announced that he had figured it out over Morotai that there are 84 shopping days to Christmas...
...apparently was the hotel manager. He then proceeded to tell my friend and I that he couldn't expect much more than this from the Navy and that this was a typical gesture of gratitude by the armed services. He then threatened to call the shore patrol...
...shore patrol came, and escorted the two officers out. One of the attackers stopped him, Lieut. Dickins said, told him he had "beaten up a personal friend of the President," said that "severe punishment" would follow...