Word: prowls
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...little group sets out on a mission as weird in its way as the quest of Ahab for the white whale. Hennessey is killed in the landing. The others take part in checking a Japanese assault across a narrow stream, get drunk, shoot prisoners, and prowl among the Japanese corpses for souvenirs. They are certain that their wives back home are unfaithful to them, from their own success in seducing other men's wives, and from the number of letters from the States which arrive, telling them that all is over...
...careful check for possible cribbing seems to be necessary in this imperfect world. Over-zealous watchmen, however, who apparently feel they have not earned their pay unless they prowl the premises like Sam Spades, do more harm than good. They appear to hold the belief that every student has spent the term laying elaborate plans for skulldudgery on the final exam. Such an attitude is contrary to the "innocent until proven guilty" standard of common law,--and it is like the Chinese water torture for exam-writers, who are demonstrably the jumpiest of humans...
...surest signs of spring in Buenos Aires is the piropo, the compliment whispered to girls by young men on the prowl. Sometimes it is a simple: "Ah, mi corazón, where are you going?" More frequently it is a formularized gambit of a sort that has been used for generations. Thus, overhauling a girl in a green dress, a gay blade breathes into her ear: "You are a miracle when green; what will you be when you are ripe...
...effort to stop further damage, Yard police, reinforced by prowl cars from the Cambridge police, were stopping all pedestrians in the area surrounding the Houses and in the Yard. They demanded bursars cards for identification...
...Civil War novels, it rustles with crinolines and chivalry, tells its story through the decline of an aristocratic family. But Author Williams' Currains are haunted by a unique skeleton in the plantation closet: it seems that Papa Currain, long since dead, "like a young torn turkey on the prowl, lightly dandling a hedge wench named Lucy Hanks in some hidden thicket ... had fathered Abraham Lincoln's mother...