Word: cordoning
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...followed the crucifer up the aisle, while outside on Fifth Ave. motor horns blared interrogatively, and ladies on their way out to luncheon found their cars blocked by a crowd of the curious, who lingered about the steps of the old limestone fane kept in order by a cordon of special policemen...
Pale, haggard, he sought the villa of Joseph Farinelli, his wealthy friend. His bodyguard, 20 strong, was swelled by a cordon of Swiss police desperately uneasy lest he be assassinated. Secretly he returned the official calls of his distinguished confréres, who were busy with the final details of the Pact. In these last-minute negotiations he took no part. With the fears and the aloofness of a Sultan he remained secluded until the hour when he must add his pen scratch to the others...
Last week a veiled face appeared in London. Seething Indian retainers and a cordon of British police joined forces to make certain that a visage mellowed by 65 summers should retain its sanctity inviolate...
...would probably have saved him, but he chose to finish the operation without attending to himself. As a result his arm became infected and had to be amputated last week. "For his devotion to duty under exceptional circumstances" the French Government caused Dr. Vadon to be decorated with the cordon of the Legion of Honor, on the day after his arm was amputated...
...authorities worked fast, the flames faster. That night a half-burned pile of examination papers and a completely burned Parliament House were surrounded and guarded by a cordon of police...