Word: escorts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...squirely life in the Santa Barbara hills. With his actress wife Benita Hume he did a radio-and-TV comedy series (The Halls of Ivy), also played host to such career-long friends as Richard Barthelmess and William Powell. It fell to Barthelmess and Powell last week to escort Benita Hume Colman and the Colmans' only child, Juliet, to the funeral of Ronald Colman, dead of a lung infection...
Outside, the handful of escort police hung back. Brutally manhandled by vengeful mobs after the overthrow of Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez last January, they seemed afraid to tackle bloodthirsty civilians again. One U.S. Secret Service man threw himself across the back window of Nixon's car to protect it from stones and clubs. Others pulled at a stubborn student lying under the car's front wheels. The howling mob tried to overturn...
Bigelow first became aware of the necessity for stopping war in 1945: "Late in World War II, I was a Captain of the destroyer escort DALE W. PETERSON--DE 337--and was on her bridge as we came into Pearl Harbor from San Francisco when the first news arrived of the explosion of an atomic bomb over Hiroshima. Although I had no way of understanding what an atom bomb was, I was absolutely awestruck, as I suppose all men were for a moment. Intuitively it was then that I realized for the first time that morally war is impossible...
Disillusion at Dawn. At the novel's outset, the major-driven by a pitiable need to search for whatever goads some men to bravery-has got hold of one medal candidate. Thorn gets permission to escort him, and whomever else he finds worthy of the medal, back to the rear-area encampment at Cordura. Next day he watches his old regiment clatter through a last cavalry charge, and with judgment perhaps clouded by shame, picks the four most spectacular performers of the battle to receive the medal. With his five picked soldiers and a saddle-toughened woman prisoner...
...Airport was fogged in, instead put down at the Naval Air Station in Olathe, Kans. Startled Navy officials hastily assembled a motorcade of staff cars, managed to get the President and Milton into a Navy Chevrolet for the 27-mile ride into Kansas City. On the way a motorcycle escort kicked up such noise that an unidentified excitable citizen called a radio station, which soon broadcast that Nebraska Teen-Age Murderer Charles Starkweather (see Crime) was hightailing through town ahead of the cops...