Word: escorter
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...Meeting. The story of the meeting came to the U.S. press bit by bit, mostly from British sources. The 9,050-ton Augusta with its large escort of cruisers and destroyers, the 35,000-ton Prince of Wales with its own numerous escorts-together a fleet large enough to fight a major sea battle if an enemy appeared-rendezvoused on the North Atlantic coast...
...exact location of ships, number of planes necessary for a thorough job, other mechanical details. Then Sir Richard sat down with his staff and Fighter and Coastal Command liaison officers to discuss tactics: time and place of rendezvous, level of attack, number of squadrons, types of planes, nature of escort...
...driving hit him from behind. Jimmy turned over and literally threw a punch from the pavement. After the cops had pulled Jimmy out of the crowd and heard his explanation, they told him to beat it and returned to chafing the wrists and temples of the girl's escort...
Brenda Diana Duff Frazier, 20, perennial Glamor Girl No. 1, finally decided to wed her longtime escort, socialite Insuranceman John Sims ("Shipwreck") Kelly, 31, onetime pro football player. Brenda, whose allowance has been $1,000 a week, said they would live on Ship's insurance commissions, at least until she comes into her $3,500,000 next year. He gave her a diamond-paved cabochon emerald ring. She said they would live obscurely. Dancers Tony and Renee de Marco seemed split for good when Renee left Manhattan last week, bound for "Florida ... or Reno." Maritally separated since 1938, they...
...ship lying motionless off Mandal, the southernmost point of Norway. Shepherded by her destroyers, she soon limped away at greatly reduced speed into the safety of the Skagerrak, probably so strongly protected by German land-based fighters that the British bombers-too far from home to bring a fighter escort-did not dare strike again. However, one pocket battleship would not raid for some time to come...