Word: cordone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...under the nose of the cops. On another occasion, when he wanted to retrieve some documents from his Johannesburg office, Mandela dressed himself as a Zulu janitor in the traditional blue jumper and shorts, stuck huge earrings through his ear lobes, grabbed a broom and walked through the police cordon outside his office. Once inside, he tucked the papers under his shirt and calmly walked...
Soon after McCormack had withdrawn his name and vowed a primary fight, a cordon of police escorted Ted and Joan Kennedy to the platform. Kennedy called the convention's decision "a free voice, a clear voice, and a true voice" and asserted that "the Democrats will choose in the primary as you representatives have chosen here...
Over the past month, British guards have turned back some 60,000 refugees,* but an estimated 10,000 others slipped through the cordon-in overwhelming, living testimony against the Communist regime that rules their homeland...
...executive suites of U.S. industry, spring is not primarily the season of blooming crocuses and box seats at the ball games. It is the time when the boss has to step out from behind his cordon of secretaries and offer himself up at the annual stockholders' meeting as the main course in the year's first barbecue. Last week, with annual meetings at their peak, in one day alone the heads of 150 U.S. corporations were grilled by their stockholders...
...bouquets of red carnations and white daisies. Bitterness remained: a hand-lettered sign read, "The real assassin is De Gaulle." Flight to Death? The suburb of Bab-el-Oued, where fighting had first broken out between S.A.O. terrorists and French troops, was sealed tight for six days by a cordon of 10,000 soldiers. House-to-house searches turned up 1,000 weapons as well as stocks of ammunition, grenades and plastic bombs. Over 3,000 suspects were arrested, but the army admitted that top S.A.O. leaders had escaped the dragnet...