Word: chaperon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...young girl may hot, even with her fiance, lunch in a road house without a chaperon, or go on a journey that can by any possibility last over night. To go out with him in a small sailboat sounds harmless enough, but might result in a questionable situation if they are becalmed, or if they are left helpless in a sudden fog. The Maine coast, for example, is particularly subject to fogs that often shut down without warning ... A man and a girl went out from Bar Harbor and did not get back until next day. Everyone knew...
Congressman Elan Bright: A flamboyant fellow, he hires Liz at taxpayers' expense as a kind of sexy mascot, occasionally has her chaperon one of his girl friends shipped in from the home district. But her prime job is to take care of other important legislators-sometimes at orgies staged by him-so that he can win political favors from them...
...Yuba City last week as the 15,000 citizens mourned their dead. A week earlier a bus bearing 53 members of the local high school choir and Chaperon Christina Estabrook had ripped through 72 feet of guardrail as it turned onto an exit ramp in Martinez, about 80 miles from Yuba City. The bus plunged 21 1/2 feet to the ground. It landed on its top, wheels still spinning and roof crushed down to the seats...