Word: escorting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that he may be out for the rest of the season. At an Atlanta Braves-Houston Astros game, a controversial first-base call brought the entire Braves bench storming onto the field. The men in blue were forced to leave the stadium with other men in blue-a police escort. In perhaps the ugliest confrontation of this strange young season, Cardinal Pitcher Lynn McGlothen readily forgave himself after hitting two New York Met batters. Proclaimed McGlothen: "If a pitcher feels he has been intimidated by a hitter, he has the right to throw...
...story Times building is a block long, Rosenthal told me nonchalantly the bright May morning we met there. The M.E. made a slight sweeping motion with his hand, nonchalantly emphasizing the words "block long." That was the extent of my tour. There was little time for Rosenthal to escort a tourist through the one-and-one third acres of grey metal desks, typewriters, telephones and teletypes...
...Peyton. "Claudine was living with the children at Malibu at the time," a friend recalls. "When she'd go out with Steve sometimes, she'd call Andy to ask him to babysit." Williams, for his part, was squiring a series of young women and was a frequent escort of Ethel Kennedy after she was widowed...
...leaped from one emotional peak to another for eight dramatic weeks. "Oh, my God," gasped Catherine Hearst, when she heard her 22-year-old daughter declared guilty. Two of Patty's sisters began to weep, as did U.S. Deputy Marshal Janey Jimenez, the defendant's photogenic escort for most of the trial. As for Patty, she betrayed no emotion, but her face was drained of color. She whispered almost despondently to one of her lawyers: "I wonder if I ever had a chance...
...first victory ever in a downhill. Three days later, in the slalom, she cut around the gate with surgical precision on courses so icy that only 19 of 42 starters finished both runs. Said Mittermaier: "I thought the tracks were just beautiful." After the race, she needed an escort of 20 policemen to get her through the crowd. The crush was even worse when she won a silver in the giant slalom...