Word: prowls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both Pereira and Beveridge were picked up later, as they stopped to watch the first three defendants being herded to a prowl car. Pereira admitted to saying, a propos of a bent-over officer. "What a tempting target that would make...
Once again, the U.S. had passed through that heady season when national blood pressure shoots up, politicians talk like fishwives, red-eyed poll takers are on the prowl, civil war rages at the dinner table, and the uninitiated observer concludes that the Union cannot endure much longer. Once again, the U.S. had survived...
...high priests of Islam hold their greatest sway. Well-to-do Egyptian women formed the Feminist National Party. Another group, Daughters of the Nile, led by smart and young (34) Doria Shafik, a philosophy graduate of the Sorbonne, signed up more than 1,000 upper-class Egyptian women. They prowl Cairo fixing politicians with the same gimlet stare on which Susan B. Anthony and Carrie Chapman Catt once impaled squirming U.S. Senators...
...hauled into the Van Nuys, Calif, jail on a drunken driving rap. The cops' version of Costello's night flight: Lou drove out of his driveway, bounced off both his gateposts, headed off without headlights on the wrong side of the street, finally heard the prowl car's siren and stopped halfway on the sidewalk. After his lawyer pleaded guilty for him and paid a $150 fine, Comic Costello was led back to his car. At first he wanted to take the wheel, but soon meekly subsided with, "Home, James...
...prowl for wine, men and song, the three girls finally snag their sailors. Esther glides gracefully through several swimming numbers, and there are guest appearances by Billy Eckstine, Keenan Wynn, Bobby Van and Debbie Reynolds. But, through soggy direction of a waterlogged script, Skirts Ahoy! comes in at only a low tide of musical entertainment...