Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prize roles were played by members of the Tactical Patrol Force, who did their burly best to look like women. They shaved their legs, wiggled into tangerine Capri pants, padded themselves with balloons, pulled on curly-lock wigs, prettied up with plum-blossom lipstick, and practiced a seductive swing of their hips...
...California Highway Patrol has made detailed studies of 699 accidents in which the driver was wearing a seat belt, and compared the results with crashes involving unbelted drivers. Seat belts, the patrolmen concluded, prevented injury in 42% of the accidents, reduced the severity of injuries in 16%, and prevented death in almost...
...Communists were also clearly aware of the potential danger. Replacing the regular police and army units that usually patrol the Wall-more than 500 of whom have fled to the West-were two regiments of specially selected toughs from Saxony whom East Berliners bitterly call "the fifth occupying power." In contrast to Vopos, who have been known to look the other way during an escape, the Saxons shoot to kill without a second thought. Even so, an average of ten East Germans a day leap, crawl, dig or swim their way to freedom. One couple even floated its infant across...
...hurling Muncey into the water. Luckily, he broke no bones; but he spent weeks in the hospital recovering from internal injuries, now wears a steel corset in every race. He sank the second Miss Thriftway in 1958, when he lost a rudder and rammed a 40-ft. Coast Guard patrol boat. He placed a close second in the 1959 Gold Cup competition, won it for the third time in 1961 on fastest overall average speed...
...resettlement program in the north aimed to entice Angola's black masses into new government villages offering schools, churches, and medical facilities previously unavailable to them. Though the program is showing results, it involves a slow, laborious and wary process. Usually the maneuver begins with a Portuguese army patrol finding a message in pidgin Portuguese tacked to a tree by some natives asking food or a bag of salt. The provisions are left as requested, plus a note offering safe-conduct to a resettlement village. In this way, some 250,000 Africans have so far been moved into such...