Word: escorts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...marines were none too sure that they would get out of China themselves. But they packed the bones with their own gear, shipped everything on the Manchurian railway and planned to meet an American transport at the coastal town of Chinwangtao. A hospital corpsman was designated as escort for the bones, but the escort missed the train. A few days later marines, train, and transport were all in Japanese hands...
...cold at Kansas City's Fairfax Field to watch the presidential DC-6 Independence land after a four-hour trip from Washington. Kansas City shoppers hardly bothered to look as the President rode through town with his wife Bess and daughter Margaret. Their police escort and the driver of their maroon Lincoln dutifully stopped at all red traffic lights...
...modern dancers, but we were not to see them perform. A feminine voice, whispering "Hsst, you're on," caused us to move out and follow the speaker down a long hall. While we walked, she explained nervously what we were to do. "You take the girl by the arm, escort her to the punch bowl, wait a moment, and then escort her to the runway. She'll walk out, and when she comes back, you take her arm and walk back into the wings." It sounded terribly easy...
This raised a problem, since there were thirty girls and only five men. We were thus obliged to escort a girl out of the wings, devote all of a minute to her, take her back, and then find a new partner. The audience began to titter when the basketball player in the group made his sixth appearance with still another "very best girl." Not even the anonymity of grey flannels could mask his six foot five inches, and the audience's titter changed to a howl when it realized the sort of fast shuffle that was going...
Saudi Arabia's Minister of Defense, Prince Mishaal Ibn Abdul Aziz proved to be a man worth his escort. After a tour of the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base at Dayton, one of his secretaries handed a guard a princely tip: $500 in bills. It's impossible," the man stammered. "I can't accept anything like this." Said the secretary: "You can't refuse. The Prince insists you take it for all the police...