Word: patroller
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...using the words of the Traveler, "tall, well-built girls wearing slacks and short coats, spend their evenings wandering about the Boston Common." They have long hair waving down past their shoulders and their faces are prettily made up. They smile provocatively and giggle as they pass the shore patrol on their way into the Boston Common. To use the exact words of the Traveler, they are "the friendliest girls in the world...
...paper went on to quote the "shore patrol boys" as saying, "There'll be a little necking, but if it goes any farther, though, we'll stop them. We try to warn them as we go up--whistle or make noise...
...peace, besides making an average of 15 rescues a day, the Coast Guard does everything from breaking ice and chasing smugglers to protecting seals in the Bering Sea. Some of its home-water patrol has now been taken over by the Coast Guard's Temporary Reserve, civilians who put in at least twelve hours weekly without pay. One crew in Boston consists of a Protestant minister, a Catholic priest, an undertaker and a bartender...
Routine submarine patrol completed, the broad-winged Catalina lumbered baseward across Greenland's icecap, through a formless, numbing nothingness of snow and ice and haze and white fingers of sun feeling through clouds. Suddenly there was the awful crunch of hull against frozen snow and ice. The pilots grabbed for the throttles. The plane rose for an instant, settled, slid 300 feet up the slope of centuries-old ice, turned to rest on her left wing tip, stopped dead. An alert radio operator flashed...
Gloomily, Sheean flew back to England and accompanied a British patrol to a North Atlantic rendezvous with a convoy of "the dirty little tramps that saved the world." Then he went out to China. It was a return to his youth of Personal History. He still has snide innuendos for Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his Government, pleasant things to say about Chinese Communists, and fine passages on the misery and grandeur of the Chinese people...