Word: patrolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Modern American art stormed through Paris last week, the advance patrol of a U.S. culture parade that before summer is out will treat Frenchmen to everything from Oklahoma! and Medea to the New York City Ballet, the Philadelphia Symphony, and a collection of some 60 French masterpieces on loan from U.S. collections. As lead-off event, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, setting up an advance base in Paris, staged a big show of modern art, including not only paintings and sculptures, but architectural exhibits, photographs, movies, prints, posters, and barrels of modern gadgets...
...outfield will be composed mostly of surplus infielders. Hoffman will start at left, and Felton, a 500 hitter as a utility man last year, will play right. Dick Fisher, the third sophomore in the tentative starting lineup, will patrol center field...
...nation's top highway-safety experts (who helped reopen West Germany's postwar highway system), away from Purdue University. Under Professor Lingo, the state police force has been increased, patrolmen have been freed from housekeeping duties so that they can spend more time on patrol, and enforcement and education have been stepped up. Results during 1954: a 58% increase in moving traffic arrests, 8,000 fewer traffic accidents and 204 fewer deaths. From this improved record, highway users have saved $22 million in accident losses and $10 million a year in auto insurance rates...
Westward out of Caracas, a speeding convoy of official limousines and patrol cars snaked down the winding, concrete Pan American Highway. From the back seat of a Cadillac limousine, a short, rotund man in khaki took in the fleeting sights: trucks piled high with sugar cane, drowsy town plazas seared to a dry-season brown, the jet air base near Maracay, and scenic Lake Valencia, a shimmering turquoise in a chartreuse valley. But most of the time Colonel Marcos Pérez Jiménez, President of Venezuela, eyed a low, sleek, two-seater Mercedes-Benz sports car that rolled...
...patrol, a U.S. Skyraider swung too close to the Communist mainland, caught a burst of antiaircraft fire, and safely ditched near a Nationalist minesweeper. The Seventh Fleet's commander, Vice Admiral Alfred M. Pride, quickly explained that the plane had "misnavigated" within the three-mile limit, and therefore. "Communist gunfire is interpreted as being defensive...