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Word: prowls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Novack, owner of the Hotel Fontainebleau. "The Republicans aren't spending any money," he groused. "I'm not making a dime out of this convention." Outfitted in his "double-breasted blue flannel blazer, yachting cap and white duck pants," wrote Agnes Ash, "Novack continued to prowl the lobby, restlessly looking in vain for a big spender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reporting: Search Beyond Sadism | 8/16/1968 | See Source »

...policeman knew the good people and the bad ones, the joints and the gambling dens. The officer in the car today doesn't have that contact." Still, with the huge expenses of foot patrol, no chief can possibly plan to abandon the economies or the speed of the prowl car or bring back the man on foot in anything like the old numbers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: POLICE: THE THIN BLUE LINE | 7/19/1968 | See Source »

...Place Is Safe. Bill Alexander, 26, recalls that as a small boy in the Negro section of Stroudsburg, Pa., he was often offered money by white college boys who came through on the prowl for black girls. "It has been taken for granted since slavery that white men can seek out black women any time they want," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Black & White Dating | 7/19/1968 | See Source »

...last summer's rampage 23 persons lost their lives and the authorities expended 13,319 rounds of ammunition, there were no casualties and only one shot was fired-by a policeman, as a warning into the air. Mayor Hugh Addonizio crisscrossed the riot area in an unmarked prowl car. Some 200 Negro youths wearing the pink, silver and white badges of the United Community Corp., Newark's antipoverty organization, also patrolled the ghetto-and to better effect. The kids made an impressive contribution to cool; so did a courageous "Walk for Understanding" by 25,000 people, predominantly white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: RAMPAGE & RESTRAINT | 4/19/1968 | See Source »

...white community. In the city's blue-collar Italian wards, scores of whites are arming themselves-with scant discouragement from the police-and forming white vigilante gangs "to repel an invasion." Led by Contractor Anthony Imperiale, who deeply fears new and worse conflagrations in Newark, the vigilantes now prowl the city in "Jungle Cruisers," and are said to possess an arsenal of 1,000 rifles, an armored car and five helicopters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newark: Progress--& Poison | 3/29/1968 | See Source »

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