Word: escorting
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...obviously directed at President Juan Domingo Perón, who was even then embarking with his wife on an excursion up the Paraná River for some ceremonies in connection with the Year of San Martin. Police cutters were hastily ordered out, with machine guns at the ready, to escort the presidential yacht. Police jeeps raced along the banks of the river spotting "intriguers." At the ceremony itself, the President could hardly be seen for the swarm of blue-uniformed police who surrounded...
...four Chinese Communist officials and their police escort were just 50 minutes late in keeping the appointment. Shortly before 10 o'clock one morning last week, they took possession of the office of U.S. Consul General O. Edmund Clubb in the spacious U.S. legation compound in Peking, precisely as they had said they would, seven days earlier...
...pick up a phone on a private wire and simply breathe the secret password: "Malbrough s'en va-t-en guerre [Maryborough-is going to war]." At the other end, a police functionary would flash the word to the motorized cops who were standing eagerly by to escort the couple to the Mont-Choisi Clinic. Then, after Aly and Rita slipped out, the concierge would lock every exit of the hotel, thus trap the impatient representatives of the world press...
...daughter of the American Ambassador to the Court of St. James had postponed a trip to Arizona in order to accept the club's invitation to attend the New York premiere of the play, but as the hours passed no escort appeared to accompany her to the performance...
...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...