Word: prowled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...afternoon last week. He wasn't the first electronics-minded youngster to do it, but Dick gave the stunt a new wrinkle: he assembled his set entirely from spare parts scrounged out of refuse barrels behind TV repair shops. This week Dick was on the prowl again. "I'm building an oscilloscope,"* he explained, "and I still need a few parts...
...their feet. Five shiny new patrol cars are replacing the foot beats in the interests of more efficient coverage of the area. When the plan was up before the City Council, one councilman termed it an "invitation to burglars, rapists, and thieves . . . to come into Cambridge, watch a prowl car go by, and then do their damage." Could...
Vigilant though the prowl squad boys may be, they never get to know Mr. Brophy and his back troubles the way Patrolman O' Malley did. One day they may mistake Mr. Brophy for the hunched-over attacker slinking from the scene of the crime and all hell will break loose. As the Cambridge police chief admits, the personal touch will be lost...
...plan was passed by the Cambridge City Council, despite vigorous opposition from Councillor John J. Foley, who termed it an invitation to "burglars, rapists, and thieves . . . to come into Cambridge, watch a prowl car go by, and then do their damage...
Police foot routes will be cut from 33 to 13, and the number of prowl cars increased from four to nine in a six-month experiment beginning next month, Cambridge Police Chief John R. King disclosed last night...