Word: escorting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...calendar is heralded like the coming of the messiah. Quite literally, in fact. I watched on as one FSU undergrad proclaimed, “Jesus Christ! Tomorrow’s Tuesday!” before slumping drunkenly into the outstretched arms of two friends who were ready to help escort him home after he had finished his evening of pre-partying. And, why shouldn’t Tuesdays be so keenly anticipated? What better way to deliver one’s self from the bondage of two successive days of class than to get absolutely shit-faced so you can?...
...Omar is rumored to have escaped a U.S. bombing raid on the back of a Minsk, known locally as the "Kabul tank." When a Minsk Moto-Velo Zavod company director visited Hanoi in 1999, club members welcomed the bemused businessman with banners, cheers, chilled vodka and a 40-motorcycle escort from the airport. "There was so much dust and exhaust kicked up, he couldn't see a thing," recalls a club member. "But we think he appreciated...
...computer science professor strolled into the party. Associate Professor of Linguistics Bert R. Vaux tried to sneak in behind Lewis but was halted by Feldstein.”Whoa there! Sorry, dude, no room for associate professors here,” Feldstein said, motioning for the HUPD to escort Vaux off the premises. Inside, former Provost Harvey V. Fineberg ’67 set up his ’tables, and when he dropped the beat to DMX’s “Up In Here,” Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West...
...officer was dispatched to Cabot House to check on the well being of a student who stated that she needed to get out of the cold. The officer provided the student with an escort to her residence...
...BOOTY It was dawn on April 9, 1942 when Japanese reconnaissance planes found their quarry. Below them, the British aircraft carrier H.M.S. Hermes and her Australian escort H.M.A.S. Vampire were cutting south through the crystal waters along Sri Lanka's east coast. Alerted to the peril, the Allied crews scrambled to action stations. But at 10:35 a.m., off Batticaloa, 70 Japanese dive bombers attacked the Hermes. Within 10 minutes the ship had taken 40 hits. It capsized and disappeared beneath the waves with 307 of its crew. The Vampire survived two near-misses and tried to counterattack with antiaircraft...