Word: escort
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...army escort took us to a place called Wiliamo, about eight miles from Tete. The guide was a black army private who said he knew of the village...
...Royal Air Force-resigned after it was disclosed that they had been patronizing London call girls. In the report of his investigation of this matter, Lord Diplock very carefully weighed each minister's indiscretion on different-oddly different -scales. Jellicoe, it was pointed out, used only "escort agencies" advertised in the London papers, dealt with the girls under an assumed name and never "spoke to them of anything remotely related to his work" as a minister. Moreover, said Diplock, with a fine legal eye for delicate distinctions, Jellicoe took the prostitutes home to the privacy of his own bedroom...
...talks to the press at even the best of times, nor his once effervescent wife emerged. Their chief contact with the outside world was a former Hungarian freedom fighter who serves as their general aide-de camp and chauffeur. From time to time, he would run an errand or escort the Mitchells' daughter Marty to her private Catholic school...
...first evening in Reykjavik, he wandered out with a single Icelandic escort and walked around chatting amiably with other strollers. The local press did not make much of his one bad gaffe. Speaking with reporters on the plane while flying from Washington to Iceland, Nixon had referred to the island nation as "you'll pardon the expression, a Godforsaken place...
...whose lineage traced back to Spain and Arabia and whose world-famous, high-stepping, dancelike routines dated back to the 16th century. Fearing their capture by the advancing Russians in 1945, Podhajsky asked for help from fellow Horseman George Patton, who dispatched a convoy of tanks into Czechoslovakia to escort 200 Lipizzan mares and foals to safety...