Word: patroller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unidentified member of SJP-the group which sponsored the counter teach-in-tipped off Sgt. John McMahan, on patrol in Harvard Square, that Berlow was passing out leaflets in front of Holyoke Center. McMahan then arrested Berlow, who was booked at the Cambridge police station and then taken to East Cambridge District Court, where he was released on personal recognizance...
CHARLIE COMPANY, back from patrol, was ready to relax. The men filed out of the mess hall and into their bunkers, stripped to their shorts and flopped down on their cots. Some thumbed through comic books, some talked, and some, according to various reports, smoked a few joints. The guards were somewhat more alert-but not much. As the night wore on, some apparently nodded off over their M16s...
...police department's emergency number is clearly displayed these days by both of the Hineses' telephones. An M-l carbine lies beneath Mr. Hines' side of the bed. Each night as she prepares the family dinner, Mrs. Mines hears the police helicopter whirring overhead; helicopters patrol from time to time near each juror's home. When the telephone rings and the party hangs up just as Mr. Mines says hello, she coughs her nervous cough again...
...brew of Ambrose Bierce and Carson McCullers, is set in a rundown Louisiana finishing school toward the end of the Civil War. A ten-year-old student named Amy (Pamelyn Ferdin), stumbles on a gravely wounded Union soldier (Clint Eastwood). Instead of turning him over to a Confederate patrol, the girls and their two teachers (Geraldine Page and Elizabeth Hartman) nurse the trooper to health. The gently held prisoner coolly plays off his jailers against each other, hinting marriage to one teacher, making advances toward the other, titillating students. When his duplicity is uncovered, The Beguiled concludes in violent retribution...
...scramble to transfer to some more glamorous assignment, be it vice, casual clothes, a cozy desk job, or one of the headquarters detective squads - robbery, homicide, sex and narcotics. Only a few officers aim their sights as such mundane goals as learning their beats and cutting crime. But uniformed patrol is in many ways the best job the department has to offer, with considerably more variety and independence, generally speaking, than you get after promotion...