Word: prowl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long as the picture tells Sam's story, it is pleasantly entertaining. It is good to see Paul Muni again-Stranger on the Prowl (1953) was his last picture-and the folksy, matzo-barrel humor is fun. Unfortunately, the picture tells Sam's story for only 20 minutes or so. The rest of the time (about 80 minutes) the audience watches a big wheel (David Wayne) go round in circles trying to get Sam to appear on television and talk pretty for the people. Sam himself makes the only adequate comment on all this. He gets so sick...
...their growing audiences, the nozem recently began to extend their activities into one of Amsterdam's chief tourist attractions-the legalized red-light district, occupying a network of ijth century streets around Dam Square. While police fumed impotently. the nozem ranged up and down, heckling tourists on the prowl, making fun of the prostitutes, sometimes even smashing the big bay windows in which the girls display themselves. To avoid trouble, tourists began to stay away from the district; prostitution and pimping revenues fell accordingly...
...encouraging result. The blacked-out area included some of New York's toughest neighborhoods, where crime rates run high and the tensions of race and color flow easily into violence. Expecting the worst, Police Commissioner Stephen P. Kennedy kept 2,000 day-shift cops on overtime duty, sent prowl cars with loudspeakers through the streets to warn people to stay at home. But Kennedy need not have bothered: during the 13 hours before all the lights came back on, the crime rate plunged to almost nothing. Said Tough Cop Kennedy: "The main reason why the unlighted streets were...
...adjourn the meeting. "The time for solution is now!" cried one citizen, and with that a riot erupted. The angry crowd dragged two board members from the stage, beat them with chairs and anything else handy. With the auditorium a maelstrom of flying bodies, county police in 24 prowl cars moaned up to the school to quell the disturbance...
...first Prime Minister of the Central African Federation when Nyasaland and the two Rhodesias were linked together in 1953. His credentials to discuss Central Africa were that "I have only lived there 48 years," and that he knows more about the subject than "itinerant politicians" who, he said, prowl about Africa, writing for left-wing newspapers and stirring up the natives. Visiting M.P.s such as Laborite John Stonehouse ("really quite harmless, except that he was extremely ignorant") had been completely taken in by the Africans, who "until they are very much advanced are all liars." When the hubbub...