Word: escorting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...engineers went far enough. They showed Taubman plans and laboratories never before seen by a journalist. He was even dressed in white plastic for a visit to a sterile room where color negative film is coated. Yet the company is so protective of its secrets that Taubman's escort, a Polaroid vice president, was barred from part of one building because he lacked the proper badge...
...what I should do if I wanted to graduate. Tired of white coaches telling me how I should dress and wear my hair and who I should associate with. Tired of white professors who would not dare to go into a black ghetto without a police escort, telling me why black people acted the way they did and what should be done to make them "Normal Americans". Tired of flakey white students who worshipped me as a "colored" athlete but never respected me as a black...
Under heavy security escort, the team toured a Chrysler assembly line. "Who are you?" asked one auto worker. "Oh," he said when told, "I've always wanted to meet someone from Red China." With that, that particular proletarian dialogue died...
Brubaker's routine is to pick up the ashes of the loved one himself and escort the bereaved aboard his yacht. (The fishbait tank seemed an insurmountable embarrassment until Brubaker shrewdly camouflaged it as a catafalque.) After the service is rendered beyond the three-mile limit, the deceased is solemnly committed to the deep-from the stern. "If the ashes were dropped from either side," Brubaker explains, "they might blow back into the boat...
...most likely recourse is that the demonstrators will be asked to leave without an injunction being served; in they refuse. Harvard police would move in and escort them out of the building, making arrests if necessary...