Word: cordone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...honey-blonde American photographer and sister of Beatles Lawyer John Eastman, who met Paul at a news conference in Manhattan ten months ago; she for the second time; in a civil ceremony in London, enlivened somewhat by a covey of wounded birds wailing their anguish from behind a police cordon...
Kerr's school is less Cordon Bleu than Folies-Bergere. On Julia Child's low-budget public TV series, the wine was faked with a mixture of water and Gravy Master. Graham guzzles the real stuff from a goblet throughout the program (in seeming violation of Article 3, Section 17 of the Broadcasters' Code). His other constant prop is an arch smirk. He prances onto the kitchen set the way Sugar Ray Robinson used to approach the ring, then pirouettes so that the tittering ladies in the studio audience can admire his costume du jour...
...logistical groundwork that must precede any successful offensive. "If you can destroy the people who are preparing the battlefield, then the guys on the border can't get there," explained a U.S. general. Thus, last week three regiments of the 1st Marine Division ended a three-week cordon operation in Quang Nam province south of Danang that stripped the area as a staging ground. They moved all 2,650 civilians out of the village of Thanh Phong, then encircled and hunted down infiltrators from a regiment of North Vietnamese regulars. The bag from Operation Meade River: 1,050 enemy...
...overhead. In Mexico City's Plaza of the Three Cultures, a student speaker had urged his 6,000 listeners to "please go home after this meeting is over. We do not believe in useless bloodshed." Suddenly, from one corner of the plaza, the troops appeared. They formed a cordon around the crowd and moved in - shooting and bayoneting as they went...
Meanwhile, to the south near Hue, four U.S. 101st Airborne companies and the Black Panther company of South Viet Nam's 1st Division trapped a North Vietnamese battalion in the village of Phuoc Yen. Throwing a tight cordon around the village, they mercilessly pounded it with artillery for more than a day. As the besieged Communists tried to break out, they were shot down. Then the artillery was stopped, and for an hour loudspeakers in planes and on the ground called on the survivors to surrender...