Word: patroller
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...Officer McCarthy] drew down on them and immediately called for back-up," said Lt. John Stanton. "Then [all of the other patrol officers on duty] showed up, and there was a very large crowd of spectators there as well...
...throwback to classic Hollywood pictures about men in groups--notably Howard Hawks' gruff flyboy panegyrics Dawn Patrol, Only Angels Have Wings and Air Force--the new film is also a splendid display of old-fashioned realistic special effects, which convince viewers not that they are in a cartoon but that they are inside a real rocket with real people who really might die. The result is that rare Hollywood achievement, an adventure of the intelligent spirit. From lift-off to splashdown, Apollo 13 gives one hell of a ride...
...academy will also allow participants to ride or walk with an officer who is on patrol in the city...
...when I joined the Revolutionary Guards [in 1979]," she said. "I used to go out in the patrol car with the sisters [female Revolutionary Guards]. They were looking for women who weren't wearing proper Islamic covering. They threw acid in their faces or said, 'Let me take off your lipstick,' and cut their lips with a razor hidden in a Kleenex." She also recalls the early lure of plunder. "The government offered my husband and me a villa in north Tehran. It was incredible, like a palace. My husband said, 'No, we can't take it.' But there were...
Secessionist Serbs in Bosnia raised the stakes in their tense standoff with U.N. and NATO forces, downing a U.S. F-16 on routine patrol; Bosnian Serb forces said the jet's lone pilot survived and was in their custody, an assertion the U.S. was unable to confirm. At the same time, the Bosnian Serbs -- under pressure from their erstwhile patron, Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic -- released 121 of the more than 370 U.N. peacekeepers they had been holding hostage. U.S. envoy Robert Frasure met with Milosevic to discuss possibly suspending economic sanctions against Serbia in return for the release...