Word: escort
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Angeles to be indicted on 18 state felony counts, ranging from kidnaping to assault to commit murder. A sulky sun was beginning to rise over the smogbound city when husband and wife arrived at court in separate, four-vehicle caravans. Their hands on their guns, plainclothesmen backed up an escort of heavily armed policemen. As Harris listened to the charges being read out against him, flickers of contemptuous amusement moved across his face...
Haricleia had the manners of a grande dame and the temperament of a neurasthenic. In later years she expected Constantine to spend the hours of 7:30 to 10 p.m. as her dinner companion and to act as her gentleman-escort at social functions. Constantine seems not to have bridled. His father, Peter John, headed an import-export firm dealing in textiles from Manchester and Liverpool, cotton and wheat from Egypt. Peter John was a prodigal spender, and at his death the family finances were in precarious shape. Constantino's elder brothers bankrupted the firm...
...area 250 miles east of Luanda. Rotting corpses contaminated the city's water supply, and authorities called for an emergency airlift of quicklime. Frightened whites formed a massive car and truck convoy, but their road route was deemed so dangerous that Portuguese troops refused to provide an armed escort. Despite the perils, most of the convoy arrived safely in Nova Lisboa, Angola's second biggest city, where 20,000 white refugees were already waiting for evacuation...
...city in an effort to escape the fighting in outlying muceques (slums). After two hospitals closed down for lack of staff, medical teams were simply unable to cope. The wounded lay by the dozens in blood-smeared hospital corridors. Water was in short supply, and Portuguese troops had to escort convoys of trucks from food-growing areas south of Luanda...
...girl named Linda. He had been smitten by her when she came to a Christmas Eve bash he was playing with the Baldry band. Terribly insecure then (and now) around women, he may have been encouraged to unwonted boldness by the fact that her escort on that occasion was a midget. In any event, by the following summer she was sharing a pad with Elton and Bernie. Elton was miserably going ahead with plans to marry her, despite the fact that "she hated my music. Everything I'd write she'd put down. Her favorite record was actually...