An ordinary customs guard was quite qualified to dismiss them without further examination.

But somehow private American aid manages to get through Soviet customs guards.

"See how easily even customs guards were ensnared in a dominance pattern.

There was a bonus-the sleepy customs guard was too weary to give us the full treatment.

A detachment of Ethiopian customs guards presented arms as Badoglio's car drove past them.

The people of Chaves had not even paid attention to the warnings brought from the customs guards who had fled the northern villages.

The sheer volume of travelers means that customs guards at land crossings sometimes don't even bother to check ID's.

As a customs guard examined the suitcases and boxes stuffed into his van, the man watched a succession of cars, many old and banged up, enter Mexico.

The alerts explain how customs guards at remote border crossings used radiation alarms to identify and seize cargoes of uranium and plutonium.

In turn, the customs guards tasked with arresting the faux-sauniers were nicknamed gabelous, a term obviously derived from the gabelle they sought to uphold.

The vendors are members of the Hungarian minority from Rumania, who have slipped the work of months of long nights past Rumanian customs guards.

Since May, the outposts along the borders with Byelorussia, Poland and Latvia have been attacked more than a dozen times, customs guards beaten and buildings burned.

Armed men rounded up the drowsy customs guards and held them prisoner while tanks, armored cars, and all the impressive panoply of war drove furiously into the still peacefully sleeping countryside.

The enemy acted as if Kantolia had bristled with troops and weapons, instead of being defended only by customs guards at the border and the fifteen-man police force of Stadheim.

THE BACK-ALLEY shabbiness of the Kazakh border crossing, with its drunken, thieving, and slovenly customs guards, was behind me.

Some of the obstacles that Hulot and his companions encounter are getting impounded by Dutch customs guards, a car accident (meticulously choreographed by the filmmakers), and an inefficient mechanic.

It has rekindled fears that the country's artistic heritage may be headed for a thorough sacking after December 1992, when trade barriers will fall and customs guards will all but disappear within the European Community.

In addition to a steady, vile flow of industrial smoke, Rumania sends across the Danube a constant trickle of shoppers to take back as much as customs guards will allow of Bulgarian meat and groceries.

It was a Torcello boy who was running arms into Alexandria, who located the body of St. Mark and smuggled it out under a load of fresh pork so the infidel customs guards wouldn't check him.

Stop Signs in Byelorussia The Byelorussian Republic was using its highway policemen as internal customs guards, stopping motorists from Lithuania and other neighboring republics used to shopping in local stores for food and other basic needs.

The officers may use up to 10 years of services performed in the military beyond the statutory period, the Gendarmerie, Republican Guard, Paris Fire Brigade, Marine Fire Brigade of Marseille, customs guards and forestry officers.

The royal army of Royth would number eighty thousand men when fully mobilized, and there were also fifty thousand more in local militia units, police forces, customs guards, the Wardens of the Port, and the like-perhaps untrained but not unenthusiastic.

"We are the outcasts and deportees, strange pilgrims visiting outlandish shrines, landing at the end of tarmacs, ferried in old army trucks where we are roughly handled and taken to roped-off corners of waiting rooms where surly, barely wakened customs guards await their bribe.

In 1948, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported a major bust of narcotics smugglers by United States customs guards and NYC police, with city sanitation workers searching through 20 tons of garbage on a scow in New York Harbor to search for over $1 million in drugs concealed there.