Word: barriere
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...they had. Confronted by the police barrier, King stopped the procession as planned. Troop Major John Cloud raised his bullhorn and said: "I ask you to stop this march. You will not continue-you are ordered to stop and stand where you are." King asked Cloud if it was all right to "have some of the great religious leaders of our nation lead us in prayer." When permission was granted, King motioned to his longtime friend, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy. As hundreds in the parade knelt in the sunlight, Abernathy intoned: "We come to present our bodies as a living...
...protest against the U.S. air raids on North Viet Nam. Tipped off in advance, the embassy had called on the authorities for protection. As a result, 600 police were on the scene. But the cops did little to stop the mob from bursting through the cordon, vaulting a metal barrier, and scrambling over an improvised rampart of 30 snowplows...
...border guards on the Communist side of the Berlin Wall could hardly believe their eyes. There, across the barrier in West Berlin, stood a lissome girl methodically taking off her clothes. Military caution was forgotten as the Grepos stared in undisguised glee. Too late did they hear a scuffling noise at an unprotected spot along the Wall 200 yds. away and notice a dim figure dashing from its shadow. One more East German had escaped to the West, and last week a Red officer denounced the stripteaser's distracting "provocation" in the columns of the military weekly Volksarmee...
Results so far are inconclusive, but opportunities for flight will hardly be eased by a new construction program that began at the Wall fortnight ago. As a first stage, East German workers began tearing down the 95-mile barrier -only to replace it eventually with a better and more escape-proof model...
Freedom from Pain. Recent burn therapy has been so unsatisfactory that Dr. Moyer and Dr. William Monafo were seeking some agent to act as a barrier against the invasion of burned skin by bacteria. Silver nitrate, they knew, would do the job, but in the 5% to 10% concentrations formerly used, it would also burn healthy skin. They wondered whether a weaker solution would work. At 1%, it worked but it still burned skin. Without much hope of success they switched to the greater dilution...