Word: escorts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...assassination of High Commissioner Sir Henry Gurney (TiME, Oct. 15). In the past six weeks, 19 people have been killed and 165 wounded by the Communists. Last week the visiting director of a London rubber firm, his plantation manager and nine policemen who were in his heavily guarded escort were ambushed and killed. Same day the Communists sabotaged the Singapore train 20 miles from Kuala Lumpur, killed five passengers and injured 20. Aboard the train was the Yang di-Pertuan Besar, Malayan ruler of Negri Sembilan. Said His Highness: "It was a terrifying experience." Loyal Negri Sembilan Malays, hitherto neutral...
...formal gowns for women) is worn. M.P.s must bow to him when entering and leaving the House. It is only when Mr. Speaker takes a ceremonial drive in his four-wheeled, 250-year-old gilt coach that his dignity is tried a little. Shakes will get an escort of but one Life Guardsman (the King's escort includes Life Guards and Horse Guards), and his coach, drawn by two dray horses provided by a firm of London brewers, has no brakes...
...strike at the Red airstrip under construction at Taechon, 45 miles south of the Yalu. U.N. escort fighters were able to beat off Russian-built MIG interceptors, and the only loss-one of nine bombers attacking-was to flak. The pilot nursed the crippled 6-29 out over the Yellow Sea, where Lieut. Donald A. Birch used his precision bombsight to aim parachuting fellow crewmen at a tiny island. Twelve were rescued...
Melodramatic Lesson. The brutal core of Sanctuary was the rape of a teasing little society bitch named Temple Drake, and her forced month-long stay in a "Memphis sporting house" after her drunken gentleman escort, Gowan Stevens, had abandoned her to a bunch of petty hoodlums. Temple fell in love with one of the mob named "Red," only to see him murdered...
Shirt Sleeves. Behind a police motorcycle escort, he rolled up to the Astor the next afternoon, just 20 minutes behind schedule. There was a great cheer as he strode to the platform of the Astor ballroom and flung a big brown briefcase beside the rostrum. Grinning broadly, Joe plunged extemporaneously into an hour and a quarter's attack on Communism in Government, broken only momentarily at the halfway mark when he took off his coat and rolled up his shirt sleeves...