Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young lady on horseback below is Mary Barber, TIME Inc.'s string correspondent in Athens. On the morning this photograph was taken a few weeks ago she was returning from a twelve-hour night patrol with a complement of Greek Army cavalrymen in the "bandit-infested" countryside south of the town of Komotine, Thrace. The purpose of her night ride was to observe the workings of the officer observer-advisers of the U.S. Army Group in Greece. Cabled...
When Taylor arrived, a burly patrolman blocked the main door, over which some one had placed a sign, "Negroes." "This is the colored entrance," he said, "the white entrance is around the side." Taylor ignored him, tried to brush past. Four detectives closed in. They hustled Taylor to a patrol car and shoved him in. At the police station, Senator Taylor was booked for "disorderly conduct" (for violating Alabama's segregation laws) and searched. When he protested, a cop growled: "Keep your mouth shut, buddy." Released on bond, he was ordered to stand trial this week. Said Senator Taylor...
Nicaragua's Somoza feared that those guns were now to be turned on him. From his hilltop command post overlooking Managua, he ordered a daily air patrol flown over the Gulf of Fonseca. He hustled supplies south to his National Guard patrols, who crossed the border and shot up a Costa Rican town. He cabled every Latin American republic that Nicaraguan exiles were meeting in Puerto Limón, Costa Rica, organizing an expedition to overthrow...
...would Jerusalem's 100,000 Jews get their fuel oil (which comes by pipeline across Arab lands) or water (which is pumped from .the wells of Ras el Ain in Jewish Palestine through Arab territory)? Who would run and maintain railroads, the postal system, telegraphs and ports, or patrol the borders against cholera-carriers...
...They can search the whole Mediterranean Sea for a small boat-load of illegal immigrants, but they say they cannot patrol the few miles of the Palestine border...