Word: escorted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...considers a convenient telephone to be a luxury item. Many students, on the other hand, do not consider it a luxury to speak with a teaching fellow, set up an appointment with a professor, or manage one's extracurricular affairs, not to mention calling the Harvard Police or the Escort Service...
...jeer. Usually this means William Randolph Hearst and whatever foreign personage happens to be visiting Hollywood. But last week it meant Charles Spencer Chaplin and Albert Einstein. All of Hollywood's police reserves turned out one evening to make tunnels through the populace so that Mr. Chaplin could escort Dr. Einstein and a party of scientists to see the first new Chaplin film in two years...
...Europe and U.S. presidential contests. Last spring he returned to China for a long look at the policies and processes that have transformed the country over the past 38 years. "I was free to go where I wanted," says White, "and I did, for seven weeks, with only my escort of two interpreters. I got a lot of information by just stopping our car and getting out to talk to peasants along the road: 'What are your crops? How much rent do you pay? Does your wife keep chickens?' I found I could still jabber away...
...aviation custom, the interceptor is permitted to escort the intruder out of the airspace or order it to leave or land. This can be done either by radio in English, the language of the air, or with hand signals. If neither approach works, the interceptor flies in front and to the left of the trespasser and rocks its wings-or at night, the its lights- to signal "Follow me." The off-course plane copies the signal and reply "I will obey." At that point the fighter heads for an airport and flies low over the runway where the intruder...
...ignore warning shots signaling him to land at a nearby military base, the Israeli pilots shot the Boeing down, killing 108 of the 116 passengers aboard. Tapes of cockpit conversations from the crash later revealed that the pilot had mistaken the Israeli interceptors for a friendly Egyptian fighter escort. Chastened, the Israeli government issued an apology and paid more than $3 million in compensation...