Word: patroller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...part, North Carolina has reacted with revolutionary aplomb. The legislature in Raleigh resolved that "immediate steps should be taken for the actual defense of North Carolina's borders with Georgia, including measures to mobilize the North Carolina highway patrol, North Carolina National Guard and, if necessary as a last resort, build fortifications on the present border...
...children in her bed; but seeing them beneath the blanket, the soldiers opened fire, killing two and wounding another. According to one report from the Press Trust of India (P.T.I.), 50 refugees recently fled into a jute field near the Indian border when they heard a Pakistani army patrol approaching. "Suddenly a six-month-old child in its mother's lap started crying," said the P.T.I, report. "Failing to make the child silent and apprehending that the refugees might be attacked, the woman throttled the infant to death...
...With customary élan, the police joined the fray. Captain Daniel McGowan of the Public Morals Task Force was assigned to the new post of "Director of Prostitution Control." Patrols in the area were beefed up with plainclothesmen borrowed from the gambling detail and men of the mobile Tactical Patrol Force, many armed with cameras to capture the girls in the act of soliciting. There were also efforts to discourage, through arrests, the live sex shows that complement the streetside spectacle, and some talk, mostly just that, of prosecuting "Johns," as the girls call their customers. Finally, the police established...
...merchants who offer the plan, the report declared, it does not investigate a firm's advertising practices or the quality of its merchandise. The Nader group cited one example of a Master Charge merchant who sold sewing machines through phony advertising. Bank officials reply that they simply cannot patrol the ethics of every store owner who offers the plan, but that they investigate complaints from cardholders and have dropped merchants who were found to defraud. The Nader group also alleged that Citibank has violated the federal truth-in-lending law. On Master Charge bills, the report noted, Citibank gives...
...Dent's stories are understandably something of a letdown. The Fabulous Five, Doc's "companions in adventure and excitement," are said to be "the five greatest brains ever assembled in one group," but they talk ("Holy Cow! That's plumb ding-y!") like the Beaver Patrol on an overnight hike. Dent's villains are far zingier. They have names like Ull, Ark, Var, Zoro, Rama Tura, "The Sinister Count Ramadanoff" and "The Horrible Humpback"-whose hump, by the way, is packed with nefarious electronic gear. One of his nastiest creations is an Eskimo known as Heck...