Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...colleagues had tried corruptly to influence two members of the hung jury. In the case decided last week, Hoffa and a co-defendant were convicted of trying to win over a woman juror by promising to get a promotion for her husband, a member of the Tennessee Highway Patrol. In the second instance, Hoffa and two other co-defendants were found guilty of trying to bribe a man whose father was on the jury...
Dean Watson said yesterday in a letter to the Leverett House Committee that he had arranged with the MDC for additional patrolmen and plainclothesmen in the area at night, and for better illumination of the bridge. He also said that the University police had assigned a man to patrol the bridge...
...fight started depended on whose story you believed. Pakistan claimed that a contingent of Indian troops tried to destroy a forward military outpost on the Pakistani side of the cease-fire line. India maintained that a Pakistani raiding party slipped across the line, ambushed an Indian patrol, and threw the bodies of its victims into a river. In New Delhi, a government official bitterly declared that the Pakistanis probably staged the incident to impress India's other mortal enemy, Red China, whose Premier, Chou Enlai, had been visiting Pakistan. Adding fuel to the flames last week, Chou pledged...
...sessions in the U.S. barracks pour forth stories of daily duodenals. There was, for example, the time not long ago when three government battalions totaling 1,400 men encountered a single Viet Cong sniper, who fired three shots, then fell silent. But the government commander refused to dispatch a patrol after the sniper, explaining: "If we send men out there he might start shooting again." The three battalions painstakingly skirted their way past, at the cost of an hour's delay...
...constant fear, Nkrumah never ventures out of Flagstaff House, his official residence in Accra, without a heavy police guard. Wearing bright red tunics and carrying submachine guns and automatic rifles, guards from Osagyefo's own Nzima tribe-the only tribe he really trusts-constantly patrol the presidential palace. But Nkrumah's recent highhanded dismissal of the Supreme Court's chief justice, for acquitting three suspects charged with a previous assassination attempt, only strengthened the determination of his enemies. Last week an assassin struck again-or so Nkrumah's p.r. men claimed...