Word: patroled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drink brewed from honey. Hengest & Horsa used to love mead, but 1949's perspiring Vikings gave the impression that they would rather have had some cool beer. The Danes plan to sell the Hugin (it cost $12,000) and go back to Denmark on the oarless Danish patrol vessel Thetis.* They have already arranged to sell their beards, for $1,000, to a Danish manufacturer of razor blades...
...worth of new uniforms; the country's leading citizens decked out like Zouaves and harem guards; Imperial Potentate Galloway Calhoun of Tyler, Tex., sitting in a car in a bower of 120,000 Texas roses; 1,000 chanters (glee clubs), drill teams, the mounted Pinto Patrol from Oklahoma City, the Black Horse Patrol from the Kansas City, Mo. Ararat Temple (whose most illustrious noble is Harry S. Truman...
...American soldiers and a German policeman were making the rounds checking boundary markers near Rottenbach, a small village on the border between the Soviet and U.S. zones of Germany. They were fired upon from behind by Russians who had penetrated some 250 yards into the American zone. The U.S. patrol took cover until Lieut. William Linderose, commander of their squadron, reached the scene. The Russians fired again. Lieut. Linderose shot back three times. The Russians retired, leaving behind the dead body of a young comrade...
...plea to General Hodges to spare the historic shrine, if at all possible, was transmitted down ... to HQ 4th Infantry Division, where ... a volunteer patrol was sent ... to the Nazi commander . . . and succeeded in arranging the German evacuation of the city, which fell the next day . . . without a shot being fired...
...return to Germany; iron-willed Fleet Admiral Günther Lütjens, senior officer on board, ordered a westward dash. Systematically the Admiralty planted every available cruiser and destroyer across likely lines of escape. At 10:30 a.m. on May 26, the Bismarck was spotted by a Catalina patrol plane southwest of Ireland. This time Sir John Tovey's own flagship, King George V, backed up by the battleship Rodney, the aircraft carrier Ark Royal, cruisers and destroyers, was ready to shoot it out with her. The Bismarck was alone; Prinz Eugen had escaped, was later spotted...