Word: patrolling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lebanon and have used them for military action against Israel. Lebanon denies this. What is almost certain is that Lebanon is being used as a transit area for Syrian-based commandos, which in Israeli eyes makes Lebanon equally culpable. It would take an army of 40,000 men to patrol the border properly. Since there are only 15,000 men in the Lebanese army, the fedayeen raids will doubtless continue, and so, likely, will Israeli reprisals...
...Return from North to South Korea. In quilted blue coats, grey shirts, flannel trousers and white-soled black sneakers, the 82 surviving crew members filed over the bridge at ten-foot intervals. The body of the 83rd, Fireman Duane Hodges, mortally wounded during the hijacking by North Korean patrol boats, was brought to mid-bridge in a North Korean ambulance and his coffin transferred to a waiting U.S. truck...
...intoxicating old self-righteousness is gone. Robert II, the fourth generation of detective Pinkertons, who would have preferred to remain a Wall Street broker, is now chairman of the board. Seventy branch offices are tamely staffed with 13,000 full-time employees-and college degrees are "preferred." Pinkertons patrol race tracks with miniature cameras and walkie-talkies, and protect the clam-and oyster-seed beds of Long Island with a radar-equipped Pinkerton navy. Passion has given way to technology. For the enduring challenge of any personal crusade against the forces of darkness requires simplicity of means, and the possibility...
...Times Reporter David Burnham, who cruised the streets in the early morning seeking their hideaways. He found police cruisers on back streets, under bridges and in parks-all with their occupants slouched inside. Some of them even took pillows and alarm clocks with them when they went out on patrol. One sergeant, who used to be in charge of a slum neighborhood recalled: "You'd tell the guys to stay awake, to listen to the radio, but they'd just ignore you." A patrolman who had to drive all the way across his precinct to answer a burglary...
...Good Enough. New York officials awoke in a hurry. Mayor John Lindsay ordered a prompt investigation. Hurrying home from a European vacation, Police Commissioner Howard Leary assembled his officers and said: "For your men to patrol 95% of the time or 98% of the time is not good enough for me." At a news conference, he added, "I am personally embarrassed, and the department is embarrassed...