Word: prowl
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...teams, with an officer hierarchy (president, war counselor, armorer, etc.). Their code of ethics is a distorted boy's-eye view of the underworld, laced with real touches of bravado and evil that are gleaned from television and the movies-and from relatives who have firsthand experience. They prowl the dark streets, kill and maim one another, dabble in narcotics, drink themselves into a rage with cheap wine called "sneaky pete...
With John V. Farwell and Evangelist Dwight L. Moody in charge, the Y. barged into the Civil War with a vengeance, charged into Army camps, held as many as ten prayer meetings a night. In his spare time, silver-tongued Methodist Moody went on the prowl for gamblers, exhorted them to trade in their playing cards for hymnals (legend has it the Y. was soon stuck with a storeroomful of decks...
Last spring, on a predawn prowl of Algiers' casbah, a French military patrol opened fire on some shadowy figures moving in the half-light. When they reached the spot, the soldiers found a 22-year-old girl named Djamila Bouhired sprawled in the narrow street, with a bullet wound in the shoulder. In her possession were various F.L.N. documents linking her to Yacef Saadi, the rebel "Captain of Algiers," who had been terrorizing the city with a rash of bombs planted in cafes, milk bars, and litter baskets...
Councilor Alfred Vellucci, who claimed that some of his relatives and friends have been molested by the mysterious assailant, gained approval of a motion to place all the city's inactive policemen and 15 prowl cars on night duty "until such time as The Prowler has been apprehended...
...were forced to ferret out news crumbs from such peccable sources as a blind coffee vendor in the City Hall lobby, Journal Editor Gene ("Lucky") Farrell refused to knuckle under. Said he: "They can't live without us." Sending as many as five legmen at a time to prowl City Hall, and eking out their reports with wire-service coverage, Editor Farrell explored in acid detail such practices by inexperienced officials as heavy overpayment for a batch of air conditioners and the "economy" of firing 17 city attorneys and replacing them with 19 at the cost of an extra...