Word: prowls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pinpointed especially were the most threatened of New York's 34,000 acres of park, 725 playgrounds, 17 swimming pools and 18 miles of sandy, sunny beach as well as 14 "high hazard" slum areas, where more than 100 organized gangs prowl the streets. To these potential trouble points went 700 extra police in uniform or plainclothes, on foot or in radio cruisers, trained and ready to study the faces of an uncertain generation and to move in hard and fast on its rebels...
...part of the show with some advance info on the stock market. Then I'll go into a soft shoe with the girls, followed by a hot mambo with one of the girls . . ." The finale: "Onstage, you'll see an exact replica of my New York Mirror prowl car with me in it. I'll go across the stage-very fast. Then 24 beautiful girls -probably in G strings-come out swinging billies like a bunch of fairies with nothing but a silver badge on their left breast, blowing police whistles...
...teams, with an officer hierarchy (president, war counselor, armorer, etc.). Their code of ethics is a distorted boy's-eye view of the underworld, laced with real touches of bravado and evil that are gleaned from television and the movies-and from relatives who have firsthand experience. They prowl the dark streets, kill and maim one another, dabble in narcotics, drink themselves into a rage with cheap wine called "sneaky pete...
...Havana, which Castro must crack to win Cuba, every available police prowl car roamed the streets, and few citizens ventured out after dark. The 630-room Habana Hilton, opened with fanfare last month, had just 44 guests. General Pilar Garcia, Havana's tough new police chief, rounded up suspected rebel sympathizers by the dozens, while hundreds more went into hiding at the homes of friends and relatives...
With John V. Farwell and Evangelist Dwight L. Moody in charge, the Y. barged into the Civil War with a vengeance, charged into Army camps, held as many as ten prayer meetings a night. In his spare time, silver-tongued Methodist Moody went on the prowl for gamblers, exhorted them to trade in their playing cards for hymnals (legend has it the Y. was soon stuck with a storeroomful of decks...