Word: cordoning
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...Cordon of Fire...
...shattered walls. Kushtia, a city of 40,000, now looks, as a World Bank team reported, "like the morning after a nuclear attack." In Dacca, where soldiers set sections of the Old City ablaze with flamethrowers and then machine-gunned thousands as they tried to escape the cordon of fire, nearly 25 blocks have been bulldozed clear, leaving open areas set incongruously amid jam-packed slums. For the benefit of foreign visitors, the army has patched up many shell holes in the walls of Dacca University, where hundreds of students were killed. But many signs remain. The tank-blasted Rajabagh...
There are still those who believe a civilization travels on its stomach. Now they have their theorist, their Toynbee of the gourmets, in Philippa Pullar, a perfectly smashing English girl with a Cordon Bleu Certificate of Cookery and a graceful prose style...
...rumor circulated yesterday afternoon that police were planning to surround and cordon off the building to prevent more supplies from entering and to force the occupants to leave. However, by 4 p. m.-the time of the anticipated maneuver-nothing had happened...
...said, "There is no present intention of using police to evict people." He refused to say whether that eliminated the possibility of a cordon...