Word: cordon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bulgaria. Consequently, when the left wing Greek government was crushed by Churchill in favor of the monarchy, Stalin looked on in stormy silence, though the West loudly decried Stalin's "friendly" regimes in Bulgaria and Rumania as unjust and undemocratic. Russia was expected once again to allow us a cordon sanitaire.> After Yalta agreements accepted the fact of governments friendly to Russia in Eastern Europe, Byrnes and Bevin initiated and conducted the great drive for free elections there. Then Churchill's Fulton speech, Truman's Containment and Devil theories, the Berlin blockade and the formation of NATO followed in regular...
...against the will of the French nation, which is overwhelmingly for an Algerian settlement. De Gaulle guesses that when the French-F.L.N. treaty is signed, the S.A.O. might seize Algiers, Oran, and possibly Bone. He is betting that the army will then obey his orders to cordon off the S.A.O. rebel cities and choke them into submission...
...picked up a portrait of the Virgin Mary and started off in the direction of the presidential palace. The crowd surged forward, chanting: "To the palace!" Two blocks away a cordon of militiamen opened fire. The boy carrying the Virgin's picture fell dead. Most of the crowd scrambled wildly for cover; a few fell to their knees and inched forward. Castro's men moved in, swinging clubs and rifle butts. The toll: one dead, six wounded...
...Japan, this is described as resorting to "the tyranny of the majority." Socialist delegates resorted to their fists, forcibly took over the rostrum. The Speaker riposted by conducting the Diet's business from the middle of the floor, where the government's Liberal Democrats formed a protective cordon around...
...appease enemies and critics, Hussein released 600 short-term prisoners, slashed other sentences by a third, and commuted all death sentences to life imprisonment. He even visited Amman Central Prison, released and embraced a onetime aide convicted of plotting. In a cream-colored Rolls-Royce prudently surrounded by a cordon of armored cars, the King stopped off at the Grand Hussein Mosque for lengthy prayers. He promised elections "soon," though one Jordanian predicted that they would result in a "75% pro-Nasser Parliament...