Word: patrolling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Miller has simple arrangements and lush instrumentation. To make matters worse, they're simple to the point of being banal. Certainly his pop tunes are turned out according to formula. On the rhythmic numbers you get more variety, but usually the interesting parts are cribbed from Ellington. Compare "American Patrol" as interpreted by Miller and by Muggsy Spanier. It's one of Miller's better records beyond a doubt, but its pretentiousness isn't worth peanuts alongside of Spanier's more modest efforts...
...I.R.A. had other arms and ammunition. Two nights after Thomas Williams' hanging, gunmen fired on a police patrol car in Belfast, missed the police but wounded a child bystander and a man. At Belleek and Randalstown and Culloville, rifles cracked, and bombs burst...
...Though German and Italian U-boats also were intensifying their South Atlantic depredations, anti-submarine measures were increasingly effective. U.S. patrol planes operating off now-belligerent Brazil blasted seven more U-boats...
...cold beer. Airmen invited to meet the "distinguished Mr. Bullfinch" reported that when he whammed a fly with 39 his long-tailed Egyptian fly whisk, he paused to comment dryly: "I don't think that was a probable, gentlemen." In an impromptu speech to flyers just off patrol duty, he said: "You have fought a battle comparable with the Battle of Britain. You need not doubt that you will be supplied with the best equipment...
...under way. In the naval sphere Brazil's most important immediate contribution will be bases from which aircraft and ships of the United Nations can operate without going through the delay of Lease-Lend formalities. Seaplane bases can be established all along the coastline, and small naval patrol craft may be stationed at many points...