Word: escorted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this point, the League for the Rights of Peoples Oppressed by the Soviets was allowed to hold its meeting. Under heavy police escort, 1,200 people-carefully screened by inspectors-showed up to hear that behind the Iron Curtain was "a police system without precedent in the history of humanity, which annihilates all freedom of expression . . . a murderous ideology which shrinks at nothing...
...there took her home, and they talked a while on the porch. When she said goodnight and stepped inside the door of her rooming house, her landlord told her to move out. To Landlord Arthur Rupe's way of thinking, he had good reason: Iris' escort was a Negro. A fellow roomer took Iris' side, and Rupe ordered her out, too. "A private home," said he, "is no place for inter-mixing races...
...Drabness. Even those who had no hope of getting a bid to the wedding were busily concerned over it. A correspondent to the Times fretted over the uniforms of the Household Cavalry chosen to escort the bride. "May we hope," he wrote, "to see the Guards again in scarlet and bearskins, and our hearts be rejoiced by the beginning of the end, not of austerity which we must endure, but of drabness...
Some of the things which have tended to alienate Canada's affection for the U.S., wrote Roberts, are pretty small: ¶"In 1946, an expedition recruited by the U.S. Army . . . was on the point of sailing from Boston under U.S. Navy escort to carry out scientific experiments on Canada's Melville Island, without so much as by-your-leave. Where is your respect for the sovereignty of others. . . ?" ¶"[Your] Office of War Transportation in Washington banned shipment of American coal into Canada . . . in a dispute over unreturned freight cars. ... [It was] a picayune incident which reflects...
First problem to be overcome by the male escort aspirant is getting through to the party. With veteran-swollen men's schools in the vicinity hiking the date rate to an all time high, one Radcliffe girl, working the evening eight to ten bells shift, said she answered the telephone at least a dozen times an hour...