Word: bulletproof
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have a relationship with another woman without security men." A Bavarian tycoon grumbled that the elaborate alarm system hastily installed in his house is forever going off, "sending the two resident guards running into nowhere with their pistols." After the Schleyer kidnaping, Daimler-Benz received 138 orders for bulletproof Mercedes-Benz limousines...
There were no casual "walkabouts," as she calls them, and no rides in horse-drawn open coaches past cheering crowds. Indeed, the only touring she and her husband Prince Philip dared was a short ride aboard an army Land-Rover specially fitted with a cocoon of bulletproof glass. Nonetheless, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II had reason to be pleased with her two-day Silver Jubilee visit to Northern Ireland. Racked by warfare between Protestants and Catholics for the past eight years, Ulster was girded for yet another round of violence, punctuated by what the militant Provisional wing...
Carter, who was driven around London in a tan bulletproof Lincoln, stayed at the heavily guarded Winfield House, the elegant Regent's Park residence of the U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Senior members of his staff, like Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal, did not fare nearly so well. Originally booked into Claridge's, the posh hostelry favored by Henry Kissinger, they had to revise their plans. Bent on frugality, Carter decreed that they join the rest of the U.S. party in the more modest Hotel Britannia...
...government even permitted the party chiefs to hold a two-hour press conference. It also provided heavy security for the visitors. Carrillo himself, undoubtedly mindful of the right-wing assassination of five Communist labor lawyers six weeks ago, escorted his guests from the airport to their hotel in a bulletproof 1948 Cadillac, a gift from Rumanian President Nicolae Ceausescu...
...each new visitor. All the defendants (except one who is on bail) are shackled at the ankles and wrists and are chained around the waist to chairs that are bolted to the floor-presumably to thwart escape attempts. Three TV cameras monitor everything in the court, and a bulletproof, multilayered, Plexiglas shield separates spectators from judge, jury, lawyers and defendants...