Word: caravanned
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...more than 100 military vehicles, including 59 tanks, rumbled into the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius. As residents rushed to their windows, the convoy clattered by the parliament building, where legislators were toiling through the night to put the final touches on the creation of an independent government. Though the caravan quickly disappeared behind the gates of an army base in Vilnius, the ominous parade was obviously intended to intimidate the Lithuanians. But the ploy only persuaded the legislators to prepare for the worst. They immediately passed an emergency resolution to transfer their authority to the republic's representative in Washington...
...Gaye's caravan: She had to give it a good clean out as we had a party of divers a couple of weeks ago so some of them stayed in it. As yet, she hasn't been home much as she is looking after Rona's bairns (Rona was accepted for art college) and so has a year to do at a college in Glenrothes...
...Your caravan. No one in it, we are undecided whether or not to make it a shrine, but if the truth were known, we are all scared to go in it as one never knows what malignant monster may have hatched in some of your crap you left behind, so it still lies there unoccuied with the door flapping in the moonlight and the ghosts of bygone americans (Small A) either reading or copulating noisily as the case...
...police return, and Malone slowly trucks the house from the site, pulling past the Pearl Grocery Mart and onto Route 80. The police escort halts traffic as Malone's son Greg leads the caravan in an attention-grabbing red-bannered pickup. Next come the police, a Mississippi Power & Light crew and Sister Grace, who occasionally slows down to take a picture. Bringing up the rear is Otis Towner at the wheel of the pickup carrying the steps. With hazard lights blinking, the procession crawls past the local U-Haul dealership, gas stations and the post office. Impatient drivers trail behind...
...Paris in 1985, when the TWA Flight 847 hostages were being driven from Lebanon to Syria to be released. "Now, Marlin," said Bush in a cool and level voice, "tell me once again why I should appear on Face the Nation just at this moment. And remember, if that caravan turns and goes back to Beirut, your career is finished." Bush was restrained and cautious on TV. The vehicles, after a heart-stopping pause, came through...