Word: escorting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...first Voodoos (about 100) will go to the Strategic Air Command, where they will have many missions. Stationed at overseas bases, they will be able to ride escort on the B-47 and B-52 bombers, fight off enemy interceptors and even sweep ahead at full speed, blasting enemy air defense bases with A-bombs...
...failure to produce great masses of four-engine bombers and long-range fighters. Called to command in Berlin, Goring's young adviser saw the Luftwaffe outnumbered, outgunned and outperformed as Hitler's war spread in all directions. As soon as the Americans introduced long-range fighters to escort their bombers, Galland warned Goring that Germany would be "a house without a roof...
...topped the big time at a gala for French war orphans in New York's Metropolitan Opera House by producing the notoriously unproducible Marshal Joffre. The hero of the Marne had secretly agreed to be taken prisoner, and Elsa had him "captured" by a National Guard cavalry escort. She went on in triumph to the Peace Conference and captured Arthur Balfour, British Foreign Secretary, as her dinner guest at the Ritz. Elsa was firmly launched as the hostess who combined a touch of Mme. de Recamier with the flair of P. T. Barnum...
...tentative system would allow each girl to invite two stags to the dance, in addition to her escort. There will be an all-college vote Monday to determine final acceptance of the plan...
Joseph M. Cronin '56, Dudley House Dance Chairman, said that he refused to go as "one of the spares," and even if he were the girl's proper escort he would ask her if there weren't "some place else" she would like...