Word: prowls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last spring, on a predawn prowl of Algiers' casbah, a French military patrol opened fire on some shadowy figures moving in the half-light. When they reached the spot, the soldiers found a 22-year-old girl named Djamila Bouhired sprawled in the narrow street, with a bullet wound in the shoulder. In her possession were various F.L.N. documents linking her to Yacef Saadi, the rebel "Captain of Algiers," who had been terrorizing the city with a rash of bombs planted in cafes, milk bars, and litter baskets...
Councilor Alfred Vellucci, who claimed that some of his relatives and friends have been molested by the mysterious assailant, gained approval of a motion to place all the city's inactive policemen and 15 prowl cars on night duty "until such time as The Prowler has been apprehended...
...were forced to ferret out news crumbs from such peccable sources as a blind coffee vendor in the City Hall lobby, Journal Editor Gene ("Lucky") Farrell refused to knuckle under. Said he: "They can't live without us." Sending as many as five legmen at a time to prowl City Hall, and eking out their reports with wire-service coverage, Editor Farrell explored in acid detail such practices by inexperienced officials as heavy overpayment for a batch of air conditioners and the "economy" of firing 17 city attorneys and replacing them with 19 at the cost of an extra...
...feet, Sculptor David Smith, 51, works the year round in a studio he calls the Terminal Iron Works outside Bolton Landing (pop. 600) on the shores of upstate New York's Lake George. There he can jaw with the natives, slouch through the Adirondacks on the prowl for old harrows, car springs or rusting buggies-almost anything in metal that might be used as a starting point for the welded sculpture he introduced to U.S. art back...
...Mark VII; Warner) is a stiff salute from TV Star Jack (Dragnet) Webb to the Marine Corps drill instructor. A raucous prowl through the barracks and across the drill fields of Parris Island, the film is not based upon last year's tragic "death march" of a recruit platoon into the Carolina swamps. Made with the blessing and help of the Marine Corps, The D.I. might otherwise almost seem to be anti-Corps propaganda, su ruggedly, almost brutally does it portray the making of a young leatherneck...