Word: escorting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...escort from the Royal Hong Kong Immigration Office is impeccably British and always looking for the shadiest spot in which to stand. It is about 90 degrees and the humidity is hovering around 90 per cent. The stench at the dockyard "processing center" is beyond imagination. More than 850 boats have been towed up to this dockside in the past year. Their passengers stay on the boats--some of which are no more than glorified canoes--for about two or three weeks before there is room in the warehouses (the British call them "go-downs") for them. Inside the boats...
...Hong Kong government estimates it spends between six and seven Hong Kong dollars (about $1.25 U.S.) per refugee per day. The United Nations is trying hard but little is being accomplished--"the resettlement reaction from foreign countries has been reducing in enthusiasm," our escort explains...
...radio that he was losing a right wheel. When he stepped out to have a look, he was shot and wounded. Because of that and other incidents, Tennessee Governor Lamar Alexander declared an energy emergency, put state troopers on a twelve-hour day and ordered them to escort trucks, especially those carrying gasoline and diesel fuel. Troopers forced strikers blocking truck stops to move their rigs...
...into the colony by immigrants living there; the largest such operation is run by a 100-member triad, or gang, called the Big Circle. One of the gang's ploys is to send a group of its members picnicking near the border; there they pick up IIs and escort them back into the city. Others come by way of Portuguese-run Macao, where "snakeheads" smuggle them in by motorized junk, for prices ranging upwards of $1,000. A few try to swim to freedom, wearing life jackets made of pillowcases stuffed with table tennis balls, or, in at least...
Precisely at 1 p.m., three young girls in vivid red and green medieval page costumes escort Evans into the pasture to light a homemade Olympic torch that flares up from a 5-ft. metal container. The weather leaves something to be desired...