Word: patrolled
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...your article on the use of dummy policemen in Japan [Nov. 23], you advocate the use in the United States of dummy patrol cars...
...something that the Cardinal's guards don't share. As a result, every duel devolves into chaos and confusion. And also a good deal of fun. Hamlin's actors seem to have jumped into the project with as much enthusiasm as Tom Sawyer's gang out on a midnight patrol-Tom, you'll remember, was himself something of a Dumas freak-and though it's all still as ridiculous and decadent as even Mark Twain could see, it's also still somehow innocent enough to set off a goodly amount of villain-hissing and hero-hurrahs in the correspondingly enthusiastic...
...said that he doubted that black revolutionaries could get a fair trial: Big Man, the Panther spokesman, called for solidarity with students and radicals; the police chief announced that his men would keep a low profile; a group of students and faculty members offered to ride around in unmarked patrol cars and help the police break up incidents. No one was in control, and everyone thought he had the situation in hand...
...patrol car did not stop but later returned accompanied by a police wagon and another cruiser, as the group headed down Commonwealth Ave, towards Northeastern's Carl Stephen Ell Student Center...
Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's response was drastic. Promising to "root out the cancer of an armed revolutionary movement," he rejected the demands, called out troops to patrol Ottawa, the capital, and Quebec Province, and finally invoked emergency police powers under Canada's 1914 War Measures Act, which had never before been used in time of peace. If Trudeau was tough, the F.L.Q. terrorists were barbaric. They strangled Laporte, apparently by twisting a thin gold chain he wore around his neck, then stuffed his body in the trunk...