Word: prowling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before his Committee runs wild Congress would do well to apply its checks. "Un-Americanism" is too broad a word for safety. If Congress confined his investigations specifically to groups engaged in overthrowing the government, more facts and less sensation would result. Stripped of his power to prowl at will, Dies would soon find that the sum-total of his scares add up to little. Un-Americanism becomes a ghost story when told in installments before bedtime. But collected in one rational account, the goblin of subversive activities is cut down to man-size...
...false burglar alarm was accidentally kept in by the Cambridge Trust Company at 2:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Almost immediately one patrol and one prowl car in addition to a motorcycle policeman were on the scene with guns drawn...
...ultimatum to clear out. Sir Percy was not speaking for Britain alone but for France and, more important, for the U. S. Throughout the war the Japanese have been considerably more respectful to the U. S., which is a big nation with a big fleet more free to prowl the Pacific than those of other foreign powers...
...prowl cars and policemen were closing in on the building but the elusive thief managed to get away. The boy admitted yesterday of having sold the objects in New York, Hartford, and Providence further revealing he had melted some of them to sell as old gold...
Solution of the Peabody Museum was no nearer yesterday in spite of the efforts of Colonel Apted's office and the police. The robbers' escape in spite of the fact that a prowl car reached the scene not three minutes after the alarm sounded was still a mystery. The gold and jade objects were still unrecovered...