Word: escort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...State Department was also obliged to deliver a formal protest to the other side in China's war. A U.S. freighter, the Flying Cloud, had been shot at by a destroyer escort while running the Nationalist blockade off the China coast. The protest was bound to be mild, since the department does not acknowledge the blockade but looks upon it benignly...
...minutes we heard an enormous splashing, and I looked behind to see another small boat, obviously leaking badly, following us with my faithful escort. One was rowing the boat while the two others bailed steadily. They kept just far enough away to allow me casting distance, sitting over their ankles in water...
...parade will have band music but no torchlight, since the cheerleading squad's torches have all disappeared during previous rallies. The squad plans instead to have a jalopy motorcade in front of the parade as an escort...
There were certain delays. The delegation was asked, with horror, why it had not had a police escort. The answer: "We trusted in the Lord, as always." Fourteen tellers were set to work counting up the bills, needed 3½ hours to verify the total. But by evening the faithful had their check. By the next day the hotel had been purchased and one Brother Germain had announced new rules for guests: 1) no smoking, 2) no drinking, 3) no wives and husbands allowed in the same bedroom...
...choppy waters off France's Cap Gris Nez. He struck out with a powerful breast stroke, stopping now & then to tread water and consume 20 fortifying pints of soup and coffee doled out by a friend in a fishing boat. En route, carrier pigeons released by the escort winged their way back to France to keep Mme. du Moulin posted. Just under 22 hours after starting, Fernand scraped his nose on the pebbles of a Dover beach and hauled himself ashore...