Word: prowled
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...picture is not one of those adults-only affairs in which women in heron plumes and wolves in waxed whiskers prowl after each other on divans. It is a straight forward, dramatically naive little lecture in which the syphilis-nicked pilot of a bomber-and the audience- are told some practical facts about syphilis, its effects, its prevention. The Legion is quite correct in observing that it does not mention the most practical method of prevention, continence, yet some of its facts are well worth circulating...
...victory was scored at the great Black Sea port of Odessa (prewar pop. 600,000). Berlin admitted the city had been evacuated, claimed all military equipment had been moved out, too. It was a neat trick if it was done: Red war ships and aircraft were on the prowl outside the harbor, and the only land escape corridor was becoming narrower by the hour...
...James Thomas Farrell (The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, TIME, Feb. 19, 1934) was having trouble with the Manhattan police. His publisher (Vanguard Press) was visited by four different parties of cops who professed to see a connection between Wayne Lonergan and Studs Lonigan. Later a cop from a prowl car tried shyly to buy a copy of the novel from a First Avenue bookshop. It was out of stock...
...record is in danger. This week Joe Foss turned up again in the South Pacific. He had just taken command of one of the Marines' crack Corsair squadrons, was on the prowl again...
Sometimes the "cheechakos" (tenderfoot white men) have to fight their way to their nearby stations through furious blizzards. Wolves and bears prowl the air strips and sniff around the doors...