Word: prowl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...digging site out of bounds for one reason or another, the world's archeologists-many of whom were engaged in military intelligence work -had a long breather. Now, having evaluated such new, war-perfected tools as mine detectors, stereoscopic air photography and explosive microcharges, they are on the prowl again...
...former President's wife was referred to as 'Lemonade Lucy'?" (Ans.: Mrs. James K. Polk) . . . "Where can I get the only two recordings made by Olga Alvino?" (Ans.: They're on one disk, Victor 22313, which is no longer in circulation-so you have to prowl among the second-hand music shops.) . . . "What size is a French 42½ woman's shoe?'' (Ans.: 10½-you always subtract 3 2 from the French measure to get the American size.) . . . "What is a kangaroo's pouch lined with?" (When we checked the Bronx...
...they droned off over Japan, others were left behind to fly CAP (combat air patrol). And on the bridge of the Third Fleet's flagship was the tough, stubby seadog whom the Japanese mortally hate & fear. "Bull" Halsey was on the prowl...
...prepare San Francisco for the world security conference three weeks hence. Treasury procurement agents rounded up 20 carloads of desks, 400 typewriters with French, Spanish and Russian keyboards, cartons of pens, pencils, binders and ink bottles. Police departments in New York, Chicago and New Orleans picked detectives to prowl San Francisco looking for New York, Chicago and New Orleans crooks. San Francisco hotelmen sweated at the thankless job of shooing guests...
...high-polished cavalry boots cocked on the glass top of his desk, his long-fingered hands relaxed in his lap. He listened now & then over his command radio to battle reports. They were good. His tankmen were rampaging around, deep in Germany, on the loose and on the prowl, raiding and rolling on. Patton could turn off the radio and turn on one of his favorite topics of conversation: the Civil War battle of Fredericksburg. Willie, the General's white bull terrier, snuffed sleepily...