Word: escorting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when Donald Nixon was roving around with John Meier, who had been engaged in a search for profitable mining properties for the billionaire recluse. Don made a scouting trip with Meier to the Dominican Republic, where the government greeted them like potentates and laid on a heavy military escort. Later, White House Detective John Caulfield wrote a memo to Presidential Counsel John W. Dean III warning that Don had gone to the Dominican Republic with "a small group of wheeler-dealers" who were connected with Hughes. The results of the mission remain, like most Hughes missions, mysterious. Meier was subsequently...
...Hutton is the name of her real father, who died after her parents separated; Lauren she borrowed from Bacall.) A scruffy, skinny girl whom the kids called "the yellow wax bean," she earned her first pennies selling worms to fishermen. It took a matchmaking teacher to get her an escort for the senior prom. She wore blue jeans all through high school, tossing a dress over them to get around the anti-dungaree regulations. "I looked like a drag queen," she recalls...
...Children of God. Now, he said, he might go on a speaking tour to pay his lawyer's fees; when he comes back to deprogramming, he may demand a fee on top of the expenses he has hitherto asked. As for the New Testament Fellowship, whose members now escort each other to avoid abduction, Patrick says, "I would like to get everybody out of that group...
...Tudors, but cruel in its absolute lack of tolerance for those who refused to strictly follow the "prim and proper" moral dictates of society. Those prominent Victorians whose lifestyle deviated from society's norms lived in the fear of finding Scotland Yard daily at their doors, ready to escort them to jail, ready to prosecute another sex scandal...
...Angels. "My men aren't angels or they wouldn't be good soldiers," said Major José Carvalho, who led the army escort. "But a massacre of 400? During my two years service here I've never heard of such an incident, and if I did it would be the reason for a large-scale military inquiry...