Word: patroller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...backyard one cool New Mexico evening, heard a roar from above. Then a light appeared, focusing with terrifying intensity on the man and woman. A UFO? Hallucination? Not at all. The source was the Albuquerque police department's "spy in the sky" plane on a routine patrol. "It scared the world out of us," the man said later. "It reminded us of George Orwell's 1984." The low-flying craft operates by daylight too. A woman complained that she could no longer sunbathe on her roof because the plane kept circling overhead...
...only have Americans fomented economic repression in Greece, but they have imported repressive instruments of a more disturbing nature as well. Reports leaked from political prisoners claim that bicycles, patrol wagons, iron wreaths used to squeeze skulls, wire whips, and blankets at the camps are marked "made...
...security patrol is a student-run body under the control of Harvard police Lt. George Hill. Meyer said that all matters of personal safety are referred to the police, although the presence of any uniformed person will hinder would-be offenders...
Hall said that one reason for success of the patrol is the excellent relationship between the police and the monitors...
Hall said other colleges had considered a student patrol system, but added, "most rejected it due to the difficulty in supervision...