Word: escorting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gurion was impressed but occasionally baffled. Inside one of the intricate bunkers along the Bar-Lev line, he demanded: "What kind of Hebrew word is 'bunker'?" An escort explained: "We use 'bunker' because we have not yet got around to Hebraizing defense terminology. On offense we have no foreign words." The old lion stopped before a group of soldiers and fixed his eyes on one. "You're younger than I," said Ben-Gurion. "Perhaps you can tell me when there will be peace." "I?" responded the soldier. "Who knows? It depends on the Arabs." Replied...
Meanwhile the van and its escort sped along a carefully prearranged route that ended at McGuire Air Force Base, 76 miles away in New Jersey. There, surrounded by nine sheriff's deputies and two prison matrons, she was whisked aboard a plane for the flight to Hamilton Air Force Base in California. Finally, after another heavily guarded auto procession, Angela Davis was locked up in the Marin County jail, a few hundred feet from the scene of the grisly courthouse shootout last August that she is accused of having helped plan...
...Slick, the limpid-eyed beauty who is the air of Jefferson Airplane, reveals in Stereo Review that she once tried to turn on the President. Tricia Nixon had invited fellow alumnae of Manhattan's Finch College to a White House party, and Grace took along Abbie Hoffman as escort. She also brought 600 micro-milligrams of LSD for the tea. White House guards, Grace claims, threw her and Hoffman out. "Boy, were they right," said Grace. "I really would have done it. I figured the worst thing a little acid could do to Tricia is turn her into merely...
...group. "It's like having ROTC set up in your lounge." Some were really angry: "This is an example of the liberal attitude towards education: separate values for the educational process.... It's an example of the latent schizophrenia of the university.... I've seen University of Hartford police escort Panthers off the campus for distributing literature. Now they're inviting these people in." A woman YAF staffer walked resolutely through the lounge, avoiding the long-haired students. "We've been invaded," she said to a companion. "We shall handle that accordingly...
...first week of my freshman year at Radcliffe, our dorm residents held an introductory meeting to announce that five girls had been raped on Garden Street and we should please never walk through the Common at night without an escort. This warning was met with nervous laughter and pseudo-sophisticated scorn. Everyone continued to walk defiantly through the Common, whether attended or not, no one got raped without at least first giving her consent, and when, that spring, a man wandered off the street into Jordan J and stabbed a girl with an ice-pick, only...