Word: patroled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...near, the fleet began to swell. The sails filled the horizen like an invading armada preparing a disorganized attack on the enemy. The two contestants paced back and forth by the committee boat waiting for the Olympic course to be posted, as the fleet of Coast Guard cutters and patrol boats attempted to beat back the invading armada...
...most students and administrators don't believe the crime wave can be slowed only through the physical improvements Hall devises. Although the administration last year distributed free whistles to students, established an escort service through the student security patrol, leased buses for safe transportation, installed brighter street lights, purchased seven new cruisers, and tried to make students "security consious" the crime statistics continued to skyrocket...
Tonis's successor will inherit cruisers, a professional staff, the security patrol, and new communications system and everything else Tonis has added to the Harvard University Police. But despite all the equipment and manpower, the new police chief will also inherit the task of figuring just what it will take to reduce, or at least level off, Harvard's whopping crime rate
First there was the War of Independence, then the Sinai war, the Six-Day War, the war of attrition, the Yom Kippur War-and now the water war. Last week, when Soviet minesweepers intruded into Israel's waters in the Gulf of Suez, Israeli Hornet patrol boats confronted them. What could the Russians do to rid themselves of the pesky Israelis? The Soviet captain finally decided on an unusual tactic: he had his crew fire water cannons at the Israeli boats, causing them to duck out of range. But they remained on station, and the Soviets finally left...
...quiet Sunday morning in early August when Viet Nam Veteran John Gabron, 22, went on his last patrol. Wearing an Army helmet liner and field jacket and carrying a telescopic rifle, he climbed a sagebrush-covered hill in Los Angeles' Griffith Park. When two park rangers approached in a pickup truck, Gabron captured them at rifle point. As one of the rangers told it later, Gabron explained that "he had lived by the gun and wanted...