Word: chauffeur
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Reporters for Yomiuri Shimbun travel in the style that newspapermen elsewhere only think they should: in chauffeur-driven limousines adorned with the newspaper's red-and-white corporate flag. If a chauffeur exceeds the speed limit, no policeman is likely to issue a ticket; instead, a deferential officer may call out, "Yomiurisan, please take pains to slow down. Many thanks." For a longer trip, reporters may fly in one of Yomiuri's four helicopters or three airplanes. The paper also operates Japan's foremost professional baseball team, the Yomiuri Giants, founded in 1934 as a circulation gimmick...
...weeks, Polish authorities stepped up their surveillance of the restive labor leader. The day after the announcement of the Solidarity meeting. Walesa was forcibly taken from his home to a nearby militia station, where he was detained and interrogated for five hours. Later that week his wife and his chauffeur were also called in for questioning...
...Rolls-Royce. It was a trying journey, as Marsh described it in his diary: 'First a tyre burst with one of those loud bursts which make one think one has been assassinated-and then ... Winston gave a wrong direction, left instead of right, at a crossroad.' The chauffeur protested, Churchill abruptly put him in his place, 'and on we went in the dark, on and on literally for kilometres between the close hedges of the roadside ...' Churchill accepted none of the blame...
...bellied tourists. They do not seem to have changed many of the habits that once spurred reports of unhappy Egyptians, Ethiopians and Mozambicans. The Soviets can usually be found at the beach, in snorkeling gear and Baltic bathing costumes. The island's favorite Russian so far is a chauffeur with steel teeth. He has been nicknamed "Jaws," of course. The Soviets have given the people of Grenada a one-engine crop sprayer and imported two cream-colored Mercedes sedans for themselves. But they are a bit slow on the draw when it comes to parting with nickels...
...Danuta, who was later ordered to report for a 2½-hour interrogation session, gave Polish authorities no further information beyond the fact that her husband had been absent from their home for three days and that he was "a grownup person." Even Mieczyslaw Wachowski, Walesa's occasional chauffeur, was called in for questioning by the suspicious police...