Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...liable to inspection. Some shipments intended for the Palestinians in Lebanon originate in Arab countries. Packed in cases that often identify the contents as fish or an equally harmless commodity, the weapons are shipped in roundabout ways, like from Benghazi to Hamburg to Athens, to avoid interception by Israeli patrol boats. Other weapons come from international arms merchants, who routinely sell to the highest bidder. A third major source is Eastern Europe, which acts as arms supplier to Soviet-backed parties in the Middle East. The recipients represent a who's who of revolutionary militant movements, starting with...
...mildly sym pathetic to Israel has his car blown apart by terrorists; Israelis confide pro-Palestinian sympathies. The nation, demoralized by the Yom Kippur War, is also torn-and sometimes transfigured-by diversity. Young violinists audition for Isaac Stern ("a death-defying act on four taut strings") while soldiers patrol gardens and political hawks call for takeovers of the West Bank. Israel, Bellow concludes, "is both a garrison state and a cultivated society, both Spartan and Athenian. It tries to do everything, to understand everything, to make provisions for everything. All resources, all faculties are strained. Unremitting thought about...
...Lawrence J. Fennelly, a member of the University Police's crime prevention unit, said he wasn't sure why the rate has gone down. "It could be a combination of educational programs, increased patrol, or just luck," Fennelly said...
They tell the man to follow them to a hotel several blocks away and drive off. He follows their car for a couple of blocks, but doesn't reach the hotel. A patrol car stops him and arrests him for soliciting sex acts from the two police decoys who reported this version of their conversation at the station that night...
...college, began his first full day as a reporter on the New Bedford (Mass.) Standard-Times, where he now serves as chief editorial writer. He had spent the summer of '38 on his native Martha's Vineyard, rowing out in a 10-ft. skiff to play harbor patrol to the steam yachts that visited Tisbury. That summer job held its own symbolism. Like thousands of other English majors before and since, the young Allen was waiting for somebody or something to make the connection between literature and life. As he polished off his supper on the evening...