Word: escorting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pace cars," each with a large sign reading "It's 55" bolted to its roof, straddled traffic lanes on an assigned section of the highways. The patrol cars drove at a steady speed of 55 m.p.h., forcing cars to stay in line behind them. One patrolman would escort a caravan for a distance and then turn the cars over to the next officer...
...deaths of numerous witnesses, to the spiriting off of Oswald's mother by Dallas police for three days after the assassination, until after her son was killed, the circumstances surrounding the murder of the president are rife with mystery. A motorcycle policeman who was part of the president's escort and told a number of people, including reporters, that he saw Kennedy hit in the face by a bullet, was never called to testify by the Warren Commission...
...visit them. Many guards want to help you, but one or two resentful corrections officers can block your path by telling you that you're late (even if you're not) and that you'll have to wait an hour before a guard can leave his station to escort you to the prison school. You wonder why this occurs in a institution with over 400 guards for less than 9000 inmates...
...well that she extracted praise from her instructor. "Comme elle est belle," an onlooker was heard to say, more in tribute to Sophia than to her skiing. The rest of the family cautiously kept off the slopes. Après-ski, Cipì was Mama's favorite escort, going so far as to take Sophia to a restaurant for fondue...
...nonprofit organization called Senior Services Inc. has remodeled a 45-passenger bus as a mobile grocery store and stocked it with items priced just above wholesale levels. The bus makes ten stops a week in low-income neighborhoods and housing projects, and the police department sends along an escort for security. So promising is the innovation that there is already talk of outfitting a whole fleet of buses to bring the bacon home to Denver's elderly customers...