Word: prowls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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King decided to become a lawyer because he knew what it was like to be deprived of rights. On one occasion when he was ten years old, he was playing in a playground near his house when a policeman drove up and jumped out of his prowl car brandishing a gun. "All of us little colored boys ran like chickens," King recalls. "I hid under a building but some of the kids were arrested for 'vagrancy' or 'loitering.' Right then I felt that there was something wrong with the way the law operated in the Negro community...
Challenged and excited by a city that to him was as strange and fascinating as any foreign capital, Rosenthal got off to a fast start by putting an end to the endless round of staff conferences that had kept his predecessor deskbound. Instead he began to prowl his new exotic beat-and he found stories just about everywhere he went. One of the strangest local stories in recent years came to him in just this casual fashion. Lunching one day with New York City Police Commissioner Michael Murphy, Rosenthal asked about the public image of New York's Finest...
...three months since its sudden, savage coup against the ruling Arab minority, once-torpid Zanzibar has become an island of fear. Bands of tough government cops, armed with Russian-supplied burp guns, prowl the land in search of "enemies of the state." Hundreds of Arabs have been marched off their property by African land-grabbers; more than 2,000 prisoners are crammed into hastily built detention camps...
...Girls prowl the store like hunters on safari. They are identically sleek and skinny, lean and hungry, sloe-eyed, long-legged, small-hipped and jazzy. The jungle's name is Jax, and the girls know what they have come for: slacks that cling like oil to water...
...live in No. 10's cramped quarters; between 1847 and 1877, it was completely untenanted, and then Disraeli moved in only because his gout made the trip to his office too painful. During the blitz, Churchill disconcertingly called No. 10 "shaky" and encouraged scads of cats to prowl the place to keep down the rats...