Word: patroling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Next day, a Navy Grumman aircraft on antisubmarine patrol from the carrier Lake Champlain crashed at sea, killing all four crewmen.* Change of Plans. Navy admirals grumbled that they needed faster transport vessels; they had been able to move across the Atlantic at a top speed of only 14 knots. But they proudly pointed out that they had put 28,000 men ashore at a cost of $10,300,000, given them enough supplies to fight self-sufficiently for nearly a month. The Air Force's Operation Big Lift in October 1963 had required $20 million to fly some...
...police will be supplemented by four night watchmen who are being transferred from indoor duty to outdoor patrol...
Fortnight ago, a serious clash occurred when a patrol landed at the village of Lokano, on the west coast of the island of New Ireland. There officials found 100 natives sitting quietly on the beach in front of their huts. All went well until the police arrested one tax delinquent. Then, crying "The only authority we recognize is President Johnson," the islanders grabbed spears, clubs and stones, which they had hidden in the sand, and attacked the Australians. Battered and bleeding, the tax collectors fled to their boats, injuring themselves further as they stumbled over the sharp coral. Three days...
Jack Weinberg, a leader of protests against recent university restrictions on campus political activity, had been imprisoned in the back seat of a patrol car for 32 hours at sunset last night. Thousands of his compatriots were sitting on all sides of the car preventing police from moving...
More than 250 Berkeley police and Alameda County sheriff's deputies were present as student leaders mounted the patrol car to announce the settlement...