Word: patrollers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...massive departmental changes, which Harvard officials have hinted at for months, include the hiring of new administrators and the adding of more than a dozen new officers to patrol the campus...
...Apache gunships are dribbling into Albania to begin their closer-to-the-ground war against nearly 400 Serbian tanks and armored personnel carriers and 43,000 troops--more, not fewer, since the bombing began--still vigorously cleansing Kosovo. But refugees report that Serbian soldiers have shed their uniforms to patrol the roads on stolen tractors, disguising themselves as civilian convoys. An Apache pilot will be hard pressed to make the right call on whether to strike a convoy that could contain the oppressor or the oppressed. A footnote: as more Apaches arrive, the number of G.I.s in Albania...
...stand there and fire, then we have good officers," he says sarcastically. "I went into battle with a single-shot rifle and 40 bullets. It wasn't enough." Says Arlind Ismailukaj, an Albanian official: "They barely know how to use their Kalashnikovs. Last week they sent in a patrol of 24 men, and 20 were killed. The Serbs are smart and fight with artillery from a distance...
Although it is admirable for the masters of Quincy House not to patrol the lives of their students, they must consider the kind of behavior which assassin encourages and decide whether that is truly in keeping with the spirit of the house...
First-time English author Rowling--Jo to her friends--has conjured up a magical, self-contained parallel universe that looks a lot like a British boarding school except that Harry takes classes in potions, poltergeists patrol the halls, and Harry gets to show his true mettle. "I know far more than the reader will ever need to know," says Rowling, an elfin-looking 33-year-old. "I know the names of all the Quidditch teams." Quidditch, for the uninitiated, is sort of like soccer, but it is played in the air on broomsticks, and some of the balls attack...