Word: patrollers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Route 601, past Heart Trouble Lane, a flashing yellow warning light and a 10- m.p.h. speed limit provide the first hint that something unusual is around the bend. The compound is surrounded by a 10-ft.-high chain-link fence topped with six strands of barbed wire. Armed guards patrol the perimeter. Anyone straying past the entrance is temporarily relieved of cameras, asked to stay in the car and then shown the way out. Motorists who take an inordinate interest in the site are shadowed by security cars and watched through binoculars. Warning signs forbid the making of sketches...
...hard-liners, like those in Stalinist North Korea and anachronistic Vietnam, are determined not to share the fate of their communist counterparts in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. China's internal watchdogs are visibly busier now than they were before the August coup attempt in Moscow. Police squads patrol city streets at night and keep close watch on the families and friends of jailed dissidents. Party offices are conducting more ideology classes than usual...
...here's the kicker... false danger! We'll preserve that omnipresent fear of being discovered: A security guard will still patrol the premises and wander onto every floor. But no one will get caught. The guard will make plenty of noise, giving the customers time to scurry away before she catches them in flagrante delicto...
...have to work in the White House to love perks. CARL COVITZ, California's new secretary of business, transportation and housing, has ordered up Highway Patrol drivers more than 40 times for personal trips, even asking them to shepherd his wife's luggage through Customs. During a parade honoring gulf war veterans, Covitz and his family used a state helicopter for an aerial review. He said he was studying traffic patterns...
...irony is that in 1946, when the crime occurred, it was not investigated quite so vigorously. Miami was a different town back then. John Milledge was one of the first black officers on the police force, but he was only allowed to patrol in black areas, could only question and arrest black suspects. When he was shot, the rest of the police force searched the neighborhood, asked questions, but eventually the trail went cold. Some people say that for all these years, most folks over a certain age in Overtown knew where Strachan was. But the police never found...