Word: patrolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Parysko's body was found, a party of veteran climbers and members of the Mt. Washington Volunteer Ski Patrol stationed nearby began the search for Longenecker, originally believed to have escaped the avalanche...
Racing to catch the terrorists, a patrol of the famed Black Watch cornered 60 of them in a wood near the village of Thika. The Scots set fire to the wood, and in the glare of burning trees, their armored cars raked the area with heavy machine-gun fire. The Mau Mau fired back, and in the very first volley, brought down the patrol leader with a homemade rifle. A veteran of Burma, he bore a soldierly name: Major Archibald John Arthur Wavell, only son of the late Field Marshal Earl Wavell...
Killed in Action. Archibald John Arthur Wavell, 37, second Earl Wavell, major in the Black Watch Regiment and only son of Britain's famed Field Marshal Earl Wavell; while leading a patrol against Mau Mau terrorists; near Thika, Kenya (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...Arab legionnaires in red-and-white-checked kefiyas and Jewish soldiers in British-style khaki eye each other warily, fingers on triggers. By night in Arab border hamlets, villagers playing backgammon in the coffee houses hush their voices the better to hear the stealthy pad of an approaching "reprisal" patrol. In the white Israeli houses shaped like sugar cubes, newcomers to Israel anxiously tack grenade-proof netting across the window frames for protection against Arab-hurled "mosquitoes...
Dpor-to-Door. In Omaha, after breaking into an insurance office, Roy Barkley ran to the street, hailed a taxicab, opened the door, too late discovered that he had Doarded a police patrol...