Word: patroller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard will hire about 14 students to patrol the Houses and Yard for fires between midnight and 8 a.m., Stephen S. J. Hall, vice-president for Administration, announced Tuesday...
...offices in New York City, Ottawa, Montreal, Paris, Vienna, Geneva, Brussels, Buenos Aires and Kinshasa as well as Tel Aviv and Jerusalem; fortunately, all were discovered before they could do any damage. Security was strengthened around Israeli offices throughout the world; British police set up a special anti-kidnap patrol; in New York City, visitors to the Israeli U.N. mission communicated through locked doors by intercom and closed-circuit...
...cautious national mood was seen most clearly in New York City, where a new three-year contract was negotiated for 60,000 teachers. The thorniest issues were nonmonetary demands by the teachers-among them, that the school board hire 6,000 guards to patrol the city's public schools, in which reported crimes and acts of violence rose from 333 in 1970 to 580 last year...
...seven years ago, South Korean troops have gained a reputation as the toughest and meanest of the allied forces. Off duty, they arm-wrestle and break layers of bricks with a single karate-like chop. In battle they are fierce, frightening the peasants by the zeal with which they patrol their zones of operation, which are mainly in the central coastal region and include vital sections of Highways 1,19 and 21. It is an area that is considered "hostile"; much of it continues to be controlled by the Viet Cong. Even at this late date, the overextended South Vietnamese...
...people. Many quickly take advantage of "bomb salvage" sales, shopping behind barricades of wire and submitting to body checks at street corners. They have even formed their own vocabulary for what is happening around them. A building is not bombed; someone "puts the touch" to it. An army patrol becomes a "duck patrol" because the British soldiers, nervously fingering their weapons, walk the streets like sitting ducks. People who are murdered in their homes get "the midnight knock," while those killed in demonstrations are victims of "an aggro," meaning an aggravation. The conflict itself is called, with simple eloquence...