Word: caravan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...terms of the Southland (7-Eleven) Corp.'s $1.2 million gift, every medal-winning Olympian was allowed to invite one guest on the caravan, and their choices were telling. Jeff Blatnick, the nation's most renowned Greco-Roman wrestler, asked Andrew Saris, the last man cut from the squad. Mary Lou Retton, whose gymnastics career required her to leave home two years ago, reached back to Follansbee, W. Va., for her old friend Lori Lombardi. Cyclist Steve Hegg's neighbor Doug Huffman used to pace him tirelessly in Dana Point, Calif. They went together to the parade...
...town Baltimore on a chilly, misty afternoon last week. The procession of cars, vans and buses wove in and out of rush-hour traffic, red and blue lights flashing and police sirens wailing. Clots of office workers gathered outside the trendy shops and restaurants of Harborplace to watch. The caravan zipped by them and into East Baltimore, an area of sagging row houses, many disfigured by broken or boarded-up windows...
...than usual. In Baltimore, campaign workers had to hire a cab to lead a motorcade of aides and reporters to pick up Jackson at Jarrard's home Tuesday morning, and borrow $12 from a reporter to pay the fare. Even then, Aide Frank Watkins had to stop the caravan of vans and buses to ask exact directions from two children playing on a nearby sidewalk...
...Pavilions sometimes seems to be even longer and more convoluted than the elaborate wedding procession that snakes its way across the Indian countryside. Yet in the end, the journey yields a pleasant sort of weariness. After all, The Far Pavilions is not history, but romance, best symbolized by that caravan of elephants proudly carrying delicate princesses in luxuriously appointed howdahs. The viewers, like the travelers, are trundled slowly but surely along, secure in the knowledge that, however loud the shots or wails, they will arrive safely, if sleepily, at their destinations. -By Richard Stengel
...defendants arrive at the Westchester County courthouse every day in a law-enforcement caravan that starts 18 miles away. Entrances to the courthouse are blocked by concrete barriers to ward off Beirut-style truck-bomb attacks. Participants and spectators are screened twice by metal detectors before entering the eighth-floor courtroom. Outside there are armed police everywhere, seen and unseen...