Word: escorted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...local police for his personal safety. Traveling in Italy, he rates a six-man motorcycle escort, busloads of carabinieri and plainclothes police in the crowd. In his 1979 visit to New York City, he was protected by thousands of policemen. In Japan last year police carried special steel racquets to bat away thrown objects-a quaint reminder of the success of the country's ultrastrict gun laws...
Fish, who will be Harvard's first tennis coach to escort a squad to the nationals, credits the stellar season to the team's superb depth. He cites freshman Robbie Wheeler's ability to step in successfully for the injured Adam Berin at the crucial Princeton confrontation as typical of the team's down-the-line strength...
...line to match the GM J-cars, but both companies are introducing sporty versions of existing front-wheel-drive subcompacts. Ford has launched its first two-seater models since the 1957 Thunderbird: the Ford EXP and the Mercury LN7. The cars are smartly designed versions of the successful Ford Escort and Mercury Lynx, which were introduced last fall. Though they have a Government fuel-economy rating of 29 m.p.g. in city driving, the anemic performance of their 1.6-liter engine is hardly up to sports car traditions. The EXP's base sticker price...
...reason for the bake sales, the car washes, the raffles. She glanced with a proprietary smile at Jed in his rented white dinner jacket. He wore a ruffled shirt, and a plaid cummerbund and bow tie. Across his chest was the purple sash that identified him as an Ingenue Escort. He was grinning at their friends, who were applauding as she and he descended the steps to Moon River, played by the dance - band on the stage...
James Sughrue, a Cambridge police captain, said last night the Cambridge police will guard the minister off-campus and that "as far as I know" Yamani planned to spend last night at the Memorial Drive home of A.J. Meyer, professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Yamani's escort for his Harvard visit...