Word: patrolling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German Scadta System), fired all its German employes, arranged with Pan American Airways for U. S. pilots and instructors. Ecuador took steps to get rid of the Italian military mission which has been training her Army for 15 years. Argentina hastily sent her fleet of efficient river gunboats to patrol the river frontiers of Uruguay, Paraguay and Brazil, rushed frontier guards into Entre Rios Province, where a Nazi plot was reported brewing. The entire Police Department of Buenos Aires was reorganized after the Ministers of War and Marine charged that it was not cooperating in rounding up fifth columnists...
...first few days of the war in the West, Allied pursuit planes did enough damage to force the German bombers to fly in smaller formations, German fighters to patrol in large units to protect them. One notable achievement of the Allied air arm was a violent air attack on the German columns advancing on Sedan. Though outnumbered, they succeeded in destroying pontoon bridges, breaking up tank concentrations. That day the Germans claimed to have downed 200 Allied planes, but the French estimated that at least five German mechanized divisions were temporarily prevented from pouring into the Sedan salient...
...proud British Royal Navy, insult was added last week when a Nazi reconnaissance plane landed on the Kattegat beside a British submarine which, disabled by a German mine, lay on the surface flying a white flag. The submarine's commander surrendered, went aboard the plane, which hailed a patrol boat. German minesweepers cleared a path and the captive Britisher was towed to port intact...
...pray until day mornin'," said he. "But if you don't tell me you need me don't call me when you get in jail. If you get in jail through meanness, let meanness get you out. You never saw a child of God in a patrol wagon...
Forcing the crowd back towards the Square, the police came into conflict with the surging mob, and in the melee they arrested the seven and hustled them off in patrol wagons...