Word: escorts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy (current strength: 10,000 men, 40 ships) will double its manpower and build up a force of 100 ships for anti-submarine and escort duty...
...delay, without food for a whole day, [we were] taken to a filthy Chinese hotel for the night. At no time were we allowed to get in touch with [H.M.'s charge d'affaires at Peking]. On 31st December, we went by train to Tientsin under escort, were placed in the Rich hotel and not allowed to leave the bedroom or talk with anyone . . . We were then put on board the S.S. Heinrich Jessen for Hong Kong...
...hours, squadrons of French-manned Sherman tanks, each followed by 10 to 15 truckloads of combat infantrymen, paraded through Hanoi, criss-crossing through the streets into every quarter of the city to magnify the appearance of strength. In Saigon, De Lattre ordered 44 U.S. Bearcat fighters, unloaded from the escort carrier Windham Bay, to be towed through the streets in full view of the Indo-Chinese public...
Neighbor. In Providence, John de Rosa charged that Albert J. Sullivan kept a neighborly promise to escort De Rosa's wife and two children to the movies, then excused himself, went back to the De Rosa house and stole the radio...
...other hand, the City, for example, supplies free police protection for all of Harvard's football and Commencement crowds, including a weekly motorcycle escort for the Band's march to Soldiers Field...