Word: patrolling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kept down the east coast of Japan, hoping to get through to the China coast. The change of plans in the early take-off had altered the nice calculations we had made and we were afraid of running short of gas. We flew low over the water. Sometimes Japanese patrol planes off the coast would pass high overhead without noticing...
...peace, besides making an average of 15 rescues a day, the Coast Guard does everything from breaking ice and chasing smugglers to protecting seals in the Bering Sea. Some of its home-water patrol has now been taken over by the Coast Guard's Temporary Reserve, civilians who put in at least twelve hours weekly without pay. One crew in Boston consists of a Protestant minister, a Catholic priest, an undertaker and a bartender...
...class and places a "restraining influence" on the Professors whenever a "quip" is forthcoming? The secret is out. She is Miss Thelma Cutter of the Glass Hall secretarial staff, who, incidentally, is progressing admirably in the studies given the "Singing Statisticians." If ever a Women's Army Statistical Patrol (WASP) is organized, she'll surely become No. 1 Stinger...
Paternalism. In Kansas City, Police Chief Harold Anderson campaigned for a ground-hugging patrol wagon so that drunks could be lifted in with less effort...
From Tunisia, fortnight ago, came five striking newspictures. U.S. publishers played them big. One was particularly eye-catching: a photo of a U.S. patrol advancing across a Tunisian plain while in the foreground Medical Corpsmen fixed up a wounded trooper. TIME and the news papers, rushing to press, played the picture straight. The New York Daily News gave it a ten-column, double-truck display, called it "a great battle picture"; so did Editor & Publisher, publication trade weekly. LIFE, pondering the picture, had grave qualms, finally printed it double-spread, but with a skeptical caption: ". . . In spite of the apparent...