Word: chauffeured
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...pistol and his daughter threw a kitchen knife at the officers before they could hustle him off to "protective custody" in the War College barracks in Ankara. The Justice Minister was yanked from an automobile luggage compartment; the Foreign Minister took refuge with his father-in-law's chauffeur; the Interior Minister was found in hiding in the bathroom...
...work as a summit meeting. When De Gaulle and Macmillan asked what his immediate plans were, Nikita was carefully noncommittal. If possible, he clearly intended to force someone else to take the blame for formally breaking up the conference. Nikita bounced out of the Elysee palace, joking with his chauffeur and declaring: "Only my face is red [in Russian an expression conveying good health]. Eisenhower's is white. And Macmillan's has no color...
...evening last week Aly picked up Bettina in his new Lancia and headed for a country house in the Parisian suburb of Ville d'Avray, where they were expected for dinner. He waved the chauffeur to the rear and took the wheel...
...race track, where his thoroughbreds had often been led to the winner's circle, a small, beat-up Simca came around the bend on the wrong side of the road. The collision flung Aly forward, and he was killed almost instantly by a broken neck (Bettina and the chauffeur were unhurt). Aly died as he would probably have wanted to: at the wheel of a low-slung car with a beautiful woman beside...
...City of New York, he went off to Colgate with money provided by his mother. In his senior year he got a "call" to be a preacher, and proud Mattie Powell rewarded him with $2,500 to make a four-month tour of Europe and Africa, including a chauffeur-driven trip through the Holy Land. In 1932 Powell's father had a nervous breakdown, and young Adam unhesitatingly took over his pulpit in the emergency. A tall (6 ft. 3 in.), handsome man and a spellbinding orator, he was a roaring success; his maiden sermon left the congregation weeping...