Word: escorts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...route to Far Eastern waters by way of Pearl Harbor was Rear Admiral Walter F. Boone's Task Force Yoke,* made up of the carrier Philippine Sea, the cruisers Helena and Toledo and nine destroyers. The submarine Pickerel and the escort carrier Sicily, its decks loaded with warplanes, were also on their way across the Pacific. Still off the California coast as last week ended, the carrier Boxer and the escort carrier Badoeng Strait were expected to set sail in a few days...
Before the ceremony opens, Governor Dever will arrive with the traditional mounted escort. Following after the degree recipients, alumni and teachers, President Conant and the Fellows, together with honorary degree winners, will enter the Theatre...
...cruise at economically low speed. The Navy says that the Skyshark has "performance comparable with that of many operational jet fighters." Armed with rockets bombs, torpedoes, etc., it can support amphibious troops, as well as attack surface ships, may also turn out to be useful as a fighter escort for bombers...
...interview in Pravda in which he said that Canada was a police state infested with U.S. spies. (He claimed later that Pravda reporters had misquoted him, but added a hasty explanation that Soviet reporters, like all reporters, sometimes make mistakes.) Back in Canada, Endicott was a logical choice to escort the "Red Dean" on his pro-Soviet peace junket...
Neither police nor Mrs. Alexander would reveal the name of the freshman who was the girl's escort and a principal in the ill-fated love affair...