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Word: prowls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...care for according to your standards." Then the Bartons stalked off, leaving five wailing youngsters in court. The startled judge gave them 50? apiece as a soother, then turned them over to the county juvenile home. ¶ In the wooded hills near Shreveport, La., a puma was on the prowl, terrorizing the city's 125,000 residents. Heavily armed hunters and hound dogs were trying to track the beast down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

...prowl for fresh backgrounds at low cost, U.S. independent moviemakers have lately been shooting pictures abroad, with a U.S. star or two for box-office bait. Two samples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Two of a Kind | 7/30/1951 | See Source »

Guards & Sewage. Just to service and guard this vast machine takes about 1,000 men & women. A daytime visitor no longer needs a pass to enter the building as in wartime, but some 170 security officers prowl its corridors, bar the unauthorized from restricted areas. There is but one chimney atop the Pentagon; black smoke rising from it is a sign that sergeants are busy burning classified papers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The House of Brass | 7/2/1951 | See Source »

...died, but there had been nothing small-scale or quiet about the life he left behind. His 6 ft. 5½, 240 Ib. frame required massive feedings and guzzlings, and his stormy, undisciplined manuscripts were big enough to fill a crate. A natural wanderer, he was always on the prowl, and the area that fascinated him most was his own U.S.A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Last Look Around | 7/2/1951 | See Source »

...window was broken at 4 a.m., and the noise attracted a Cambridge prowl car. Officers saw a score of tuxedoed students running from the scene and took off after them. Although most got away, the police got four, as follows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four Jailed for Breaking Window, But Only Dean Knows Who Did It | 6/12/1951 | See Source »

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