Word: prowl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assured markets" in exchange for an obligation to maintain certain standards of production. The law set up in each county Agricultural Executive Committees (A.E.C.) composed of twelve farmers, who were charged with overseeing all the farmers within their jurisdiction, with the right to inspect whenever they chose, to prowl through barns and fields, to impose advice, and if dissatisfied, to evict those who failed to meet their standards. This power was not confined to eviction of tenant farmers. It included power to evict farm owners from their own farms...
...they live in the streets, watching each other with hard, wary eyes, and working whenever they can-as lookouts for burglars, messengers for black marketeers and smugglers, cigarette-butt snipers* and racketeers of all kinds. On any night there may be thousands of them on the prowl. When the police catch them redhanded, they serve a term in the reformatory, or are taken home to their parents (if any) and are back on the streets again next day. But one man in Naples catches the scugnizzi in a different kind...
...dark dreary hours before dawn, sinister little men in midnight-blue prowl the streets, armed with silver shields and orange parking tickets. The midnight marauders have been working overtime in recent days as part of the University's drive against illegal student parking. The crackdown, unfortunately, seems to stem not so much from a desire to solve the parking problem as it does from the hope to appease the traditionally irate Cambridge Council...
Paris hotel now costs from $7 to $12. France's famed food is a bargain: Michelin's Guide lists 2,000 restaurants that will serve a meal for a maximum $1.70 (tip included). In Paris, the visitor can take a $13 nightclub prowl that includes a dive billed imaginatively as "the center of the former underworld," where everything is faked but the check. The Crazy Horse Saloon has a floorshow featuring cowboys, Indians and cowgirl stripteasers...
...same curiosity drove others to try to check Bridey's story in Ireland. To get the Denver Post back on top of the story it had launched, Post Publisher Palmer Hoyt sent Reporter Barker on a three-week prowl through Irish graveyards and libraries. This week, in its Sunday edition, the Post printed Barker's 20,000-word report. He listed many a point that checked out in Bridey's favor-mostly knowledge of expressions, customs and legends, all of which (though Barker die not say so) could have lodged in Mrs. Tighe's subconscious mind...