Word: patroled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when an Irish-accented male voice telephoned the Birmingham Post: "There is a bomb planted at the rotunda [a 17-story office block]; there is a bomb planted in New Street in the tax office." The warning was instantly passed on to the police, and patrol cars raced to the area. A quick check at the tax office revealed nothing. Moments later, at 8:20 p.m., a vicious explosion ripped through the Mulberry Bush, a pub beneath the rotunda that was jammed mostly with young people, turning it into a nightmare of burned and dismembered bodies, moans of pain...
White's responsibilities will be the same as any other policeman's, Chief Tonis said. "She'll patrol and, as with all other Harvard policemen, she'll begin first with a night shift...
Only Sheriff Big Track Bascomb (Lee Marvin) has the gumption to stick his head out the window-generally the one on the side of his patrol car, in which he tours the county trying to keep the high crimes to a minimum. Breck Stancill (Richard Burton) knows a little better. A Southern aristocrat gone to seed, he usually stays inside his house on top of Stancill's Mountain, spending his days mostly by swilling Ballantine's Scotch and remembering a forebear who was strung up by the townspeople for being soft on slavery. Stancill lets blacks live...
Much of the violence took place along Dorchester Street, a four-lane thoroughfare that is the main artery of South Boston, the center of opposition to forced busing. With feelings running high over the busing order, "Southie" swarmed with police, including 300 members of the elite Tactical Patrol Force brought in to disperse crowds and protect the buses bringing black students to the area's previously all-white schools...
Then the police arrived at the scene. Everyone else filled out forms and drove off, but Joan was escorted in the patrol car to a nearby police station, where she submitted to a breath analysis. Then...