Word: prowls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...signs and traffic lights. As the 400 TV cameras monitor every passing license plate, the analyzers encode the digits and the computer compares them with the wanted list. The whole thing takes less than one second -time enough to trip an alarm back at the camera and send lurking prowl cars into action...
...spheres." But more important, "we who belong to the profession of housewife hold the fate of the world in our hands. It is our influence which will determine the culture of coming generations. We are the people who chiefly listen to the music, buy the books, attend the theater, prowl the art galleries, collect for the charities, brood over the schools, converse with the children. Our minds need to be rich and flexible for those duties...
...country half occupied by Communists, half hung up on the political bickering of the antiCommunists. Souvanna has survived three major attempts to overthrow his government in the past four months, and rightist bands loyal to exiled Deputy Premier Phoumi Nosavan-in Thailand since February's coup attempt-still prowl the countryside between Paksane and Thakhek...
...Regent's Park. Though an official spokesman insisted "he's not dangerous," all London was alarmed, and telephone switchboards were soon jammed by the tipsters and the fearful. Gawkers flocked to the park by the thousands as the dragnet began to tighten. Radio trucks and prowl cars moved in, and giant searchlights were brought up to illuminate the park at night...
...always, coeds search for their Sam-sex appeal plus magnetism-and boys prowl for bugs. A sexy bug is also a tough (or tuff), tough head, tough fox or stone fox. If the boy is a blip, he is said to be whipped by an ugly stick. But if boy and girl are stoked about each other, they mouse or scarf, which is the same as playing huggy-bear, smacky lips, smash-mouth and kissy face...