Word: patrolling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little bit thicker," said one of the delegates, "he would have had everyone in that room run out and vote for him." He did slip once, though, when he told his visitors, all but one of them Negroes, how upset he had been at reports that his highway patrol had recently mistreated a couple of "niggers." Otherwise Wallace was as smooth and strong as bonded bourbon. He even gave the delegates autographed portraits of himself...
...Last week reliable reports said that the missiles were loaded onto a freighter in Alexandria, and there the mystery begins. One version has it that the ship never left port. Another maintains that the freighter sailed but was turned back by units of the U.S. Sixth Fleet that constantly patrol the seas around Cyprus. A third version insists that the freighter docked at Boghaz, the new port built by the Greek Cypriots near Famagusta (TIME, March 26), but was not unloaded because Washington, opposing any escalation of arms in the Cyprus dispute, prevailed upon Athens to put pressure on Makarios...
...stores. Strikes were called against a construction firm at Cape Kennedy, towboat owners in Pittsburgh, and three machine-tool plants in Detroit. New York was threatened by another newspaper strike, and the Transport Workers Union threatened to strike the Philadelphia subway system if it continued to use dogs to patrol the subways instead of hiring more guards...
...read. Hoare's new recruits soon learned they were in a far different war from the one fought around Stanleyville, where the Simbas were mostly armed with sharpened sticks, pangas and bows and arrows. In the first skirmish, a white mercenary was killed as crossfire raked the lead patrol. Hours later, another died when he stepped on a land mine...
...first the castle seems safe behind the lines, and the most warlike objective of the soldiers is to drink up the wine cellars and conquer the village whorehouse. The enlisted men fraternize with a stray German patrol. The nobleman, crafty and impotent, pursues his plan to get his wife impregnated by an American officer so that his thousand-year-old family will not die out. The fanatic Major Falconer refortifies medieval fortifications against a German tank attack that nobody else believes will come; the scholarly Captain Beckman buries the statuary and moves the paintings to the ancient dungeons to protect...