Word: escorting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...husband was critically injured, and an Indian watchman on a sugar plantation was shot dead. In Wismar, 60 miles south of Georgetown, Negro bands burned close to 200 homes and killed four East Indians, including one man burned to death. British troops rushed in to disperse the mobs and escort 1,700 East Indians to safety...
...with the nation. It was almost 6:20 p.m., and he decided he wanted to go on national television-right now. He all but ran out of the White House, jumped into a limousine that shot out of the driveway so fast that it sped right past its waiting escort of four motorcycle cops. The policemen caught up, led a wild 50-m.p.h. ride to the Columbia Broadcasting System studios four miles away. During the trip one befuddled officer shouted to another, "Where are we going...
...same evening, De Gaulle watched himself, seemingly vigorous as ever, calling the U.S. an "uncertain" ally and proclaiming once more France's need for an independent nuclear deterrent and its own costly program of foreign aid to underdeveloped nations. Then, with Madame de Gaulle, he was driven without escort through the dark and rain-washed streets of Paris to the hospital...
...runway. With him, as they had been on the flight down, were his wife and daughters. As the planes went they weaved in and out among one another, making it almost impossible to tell which plane was Johnson's. Aloft, the 707s picked up the same mighty escort...
...cheery just by standing on his head to whistle. Sydney Chaplin has a cheerlessly unwritten part as Nicky Arnstein, the gambler and jailbird whom Fanny loves, marries, overmanages, and loses. It scarcely helps that Chaplin lackadaisically stands around in a tuxedo most of the evening looking like a rented escort at the wrong address...