Word: prowls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After a few days of accompanying the boss on his restless prowl of every corner of his big stores. Gart lost five pounds, and says he hasn't done so much footwork since he double-timed across Germany from the Rhine to the Elbe with the Ninth Army in World...
...exciting witnesses, including Billie Sol himself. Chairman L. H. Fountain, figuring that Estes would only take the Fifth Amendment, had no immediate plans for calling Billie Sol. Still, with Senator John McClellan preparing to hold hearings, two grand juries at work in Texas, and 76 FBI agents on the prowl, there seemed every reason to agree with Fountain's forecast: "I think Mr. Estes is likely to find a place in history as one of the most, if not the most, thoroughly investigated individuals of all time...
bloodless battle on the heights can resume along the obscure, 2,500-mile frontier between the two giant lands of Asia. From April to October, Chinese mountain troops will prowl the lofty boundary, seeking new undefended peaks or valleys on which to plant the flag of Peking. Near by, Gurkhas and turbaned Sikhs will try to head them off. But since it is essentially a struggle of nerves, each side is more likely to stare than to shoot...
...Geneva Conference is deadlocked over the vital, complex issue of inspection. The West will sign no treaty renouncing nuclear testing unless inspectors can actually go inside the Soviet Union to discourage cheating. The Kremlin replies that foreigners will never be allowed to prowl around Russian territory. Andrei Gromyko's argument: inspection is unnecessary because the West has modern instruments that can detect blasts thousands of miles away...
...official admitted that the government was on the "defensive" in Algeria. A 9 o'clock curfew backfired: with the streets cleared of all ordinary traffic, the police prowl cars were fine targets for S.A.O. snipers coolly firing from apartment windows and rooftops. S.A.O. gunmen staged seven bank and payroll holdups, netting $130,000. Another S.A.O. detachment climbed to the sixth floor of the Algiers Prefecture building, blew up the state radio transmitter that was the government's main channel of communication with Paris, since both the French army and civilian radio services are heavily infiltrated by S.A.O. sympathizers...