Word: patrolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Deinboll, a former Norwegian air force flyer, had two hours to set up a search. He flashed the mining company's office at the sister village of Ny-Alesund (pop. 1,000), then set out to rouse the sleeping villagers of Longyearbyen. He organized a dozen ski patrols of two and three men each, assigned them to nearby mountain lookout positions. Soon three men rushed back from their patrol to report seeing the orange parachute drifting down from the sky. It had fallen into the mountains south of the village, not far from the Russian mining community of Barentsburg...
...nightly patrol on the banks of the Charles River has been instituted by the University Police in an effort to prevent the recurrence of incidents like the beating last month of a Business School student...
Lasting from early evening till dawn, the new beat covers the Cambridge side of the river from Dunster House to Boylston Street. The regular patrol assigned to the Business School continues to provide surveillance on the Boston side of the river...
...shore patrol demonstrated its usefulness last Sunday morning when a patrolman spied four suspicious teenage boys near Weeks Memorial Bridge. After the arrival of reinforcements, police apprehended the youths...
...rashly advertised a bargain rate-$1.50 for all the beer a student could surround in three hours. His taps ran dry, and before a refill truck could rescue him, the offended scholars had pitched his furniture overboard. The owner kept his temper, next day hired a plane to patrol the beach with a banner advising that the dry spell would not recur...