Word: cordoning
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Stirred by complaints from the district, the Bavarian Minister of Agriculture at Munich recently ordered all American vines near Germersheim destroyed. That roused the mob, As it grew uglier last week 150 State police dashed up in motorcars, formed a cordon around Germersheim Court House. Doubling in fury, the mob broke the cordon, stoned and stormed the neat brick structure...
...Through the grey tissue of the rain it was hard to see what was happening at the post, but the patent stall-gate the starters were using speeded things up. In a minute the line of horses that had been relaxed and flexible in single file became a tight cordon between the fences, its component parts moving so nearly in unison that for a fraction of a second their movement seemed an illusion ? that second in which the crowd took its breath to let out the abrupt blurred noise that meant the Derby had started...
They did. Hurling bricks, bottles, shooting guns, they broke the cordon of troops, set the courthouse aflame, hacked the hose of arriving firemen. In the fracas, John Melton and Floyd Barker were shot by comrades. The $60,000 building was demolished. George Hughes, in his vault, eventually roasted to death...
...description of it by the Building Committee reads: "It expresses architecturally the purposes of the constitution.* Its classic colonnade, its symbolic sculpture, its lofty and spacious trading floor are character transmuted into form. Surrounded by towering office buildings it stands alone, withdrawn somewhat, from the street by a cordon of green lawn and foliage, a massive and enduring monument to the ideals of its founders and those who carry...
London. A small but vociferous band of Communists, carrying large red streamers, attempted to march to the Mansion House, to interview the Lord Mayor. A cordon of placid, unarmed policemen held them back. One press photographer was slightly battered...