Word: patrolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sophomore is accepted into the School, he must plan his courses for the next two years "in such a way as to form a purposeful and consistent program." To help in this planning, the administration has appointed an Undergraduate Program Advisor, Professor W.D. Carmichael. "Without an apparatus to patrol course selection," says Carmichael, a former Rhodes scholar, "concentration in the School could become aimless." His students, who range from "better-than-average to extremely good," Carmichael explains, are "carefully shepherded" in their approach to these "fascinating, challenging issues of public policy...
...really in the fire," cried one Indian official. The fighting took place, New Delhi announced, at a place called Hot Springs in the district of Ladakh, 45 miles from the Kashmir-Tibet border. When two Indian constables failed to return to their camp from a patrol, a searching party of 60 to 70 Indians set out to look for them. From a hilltop Chinese troops opened fire. The Indians fired back, but were soon scattered by "grenades and mortar." By fight's end, nine Indians were dead and ten captured...
Squeeze Play. In Tampa, Fla., state highway Trooper K. E. Flint picked up a drunk in his patrol car, stopped and got out to collar a second, watched the first drive off in the police...
...Africa in the first American fighter group to fly support for General Montgomery. He flew 66 missions before being shot down and captured over Tunis. He tried to escape and nearly succeeded--disguised as an Arab, with blackened face and dirty blanket, he managed to get by one German patrol before taking refuge in "a hole at El Hama." There, he says, "I made a poor choice of Arab friends, and one of them turned me over to the Italians. They tried me as a spy before the high command while the British were shelling the hell...
...first flicker of uneasiness was aroused in the defenders of Xieng Kho when a night reconnaissance patrol went out and did not return. Toward dawn the next day, a sentry spotted some shadowy figures and fired warning shots. As he did so, a red flare blossomed in the night, and from three sides mortar shells rained down on the village and its entrenchments. As the troops scrambled to their positions, they were raked by heavy fire from machine guns and 57 mm. recoilless rifles...