Word: patrolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...passer by reported to the Metropolitan Police that a car was sinking in the river. Coyne arrived with his date and friends about 11 p.m., to find his car missing and a patrol boat making preparations to search the river for bodies...
Friday morning a CRIMSON editorial unwittingly advocated that the Cambridge Police establish a more efficient patrol of Garden Street, for the sake of harassed Radcliffe girls. This editorial was indeed misguided, for at the very time of its printing, a student was languishing in a Cambridge jail, a victim of an all-too-close surveillance by the local gendarmes...
While the French colons block reforms (promised as long ago as the Statute of Algeria of 1947), French troops-now swollen to 130,000-patrol cities and hills, meting out punishment and death to suspected nationalists. Last week even the 60 Moslems of the Algerian Assembly, long known as les valets because of their subservience to French desires, took the unheardof step of refusing a summons to meeting; instead, they overwhelmingly rejected the policy of integration with France...
Reflections in a Private Eye. In Milwaukee, after getting into a saloon argument with another customer, Paul Mumford, 24, flashed a tin badge, shouted that he was about to call the patrol wagon, pulled a fire alarm instead, was fined $108 when ten fire trucks rushed to the scene...
...nation in 1830. In 1942, after the last serious gunfighting between the two countries, a six-nation committee in Rio awarded Peru some three-fourths of the null jungle territory under dispute. The Ecuadorians have been fretting about the decision ever since, and the mere approach of a Peruvian patrol to the poorly demarcated border is enough to set off invasion alarms. During the past year, nerves on both sides have tautened further as the two countries added to their military power. Last week, just before the latest Ecuadorian cry of alarm, Peru announced that it had contracted...