Word: escort
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Midwest; sometimes, if a driver refused to join the walkout, his tires were slashed, or his radiator was punctured, or his truck was overturned. Part of the underpinning of a Pennsylvania Turnpike bridge near Homewood was dynamited. In Iowa, National Guard helicopters and state police cars had to escort a 71-truck convoy of beef and pork carcasses on their way to packing plants. A total of 1,500 guardsmen were escorting trucks through Ohio. All together, eight states were forced to call out National Guard troops to check the violence...
...Fancy Free end right there. The youngest sailor is on his way to an eight-year prison term for trying to boost $40 from a collection box belonging to the favorite charity of the C.O.'s wife. The 'lifers" (career men) who have been assigned to escort him from the Norfolk naval base to the brig in Portsmouth, N.H., despise their job. No one is about to burst into a carefree song-and-dance number in the course of such a journey...
Officers at the Reserve Command said yesterday that Gen. Sumner Z. Kaplan had agreed to the Lampoon request for the escort strictly for publicity reasons. Kaplan could not be reached for comment...
...gift probably did not violate any N.C.A.A. rules, it was symptomatic of the anything-to-please atmosphere that suffuses such recruiting visits. The most seductive sell may be offered at the University of Florida, where visiting prospects are entertained by the "Gator Getters," a group of coeds organized to escort prospects to games, meals and dances. Rumors abound that high school athletes courted by Florida "can't miss...
During World War II, Walsh served as a lieutenant commander in the Navy, navigating combat and escort aircraft carriers. A colleague, George W. Mackey, Clay Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Science, said yesterday that "Walsh was proud to have been the oldest Harvard professor still in active service during...