Word: cordoning
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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...
...since Tet, could muster a second offensive on the same devastating scale. But just in case they tried, allied troops were put on the alert throughout South Viet Nam. City dwellers were asked to stockpile food and fuel, lock their doors and stay home. Saigon police threw a cordon around the capital to block arms infiltration. The U.S. 25th Infantry Division was deployed around Tan Son Nhut airport and the allied headquarters there, and B-52s bombed the Communists' likely approaches to Saigon...
...floor. Out back is another barroom, with four pool tables (the one covered in red felt is for ladies), barber chairs and church pews for the onlookers and oldtime coin machines to play while waiting. The men's-room graffiti are considered so choice that occasionally the waiters cordon the room off, let the girls dash in for a quick peek...
Organized by Marcel Landowski, music director of Andre Malraux's Ministry of Culture, the Orchestre de Paris chose its members as a cordon bleu chef would select truffles. All are conservatory prizewinners, including Bulgarian-born Lubin Yordanoff, 41, who left his first chair in the Monte Carlo National Orchestra to join the Paris group as concertmaster. Fifty-two of its members are from the recently disbanded Paris Conservatory Orchestra, an above-average ensemble in its day. The salary range, high for Paris, runs from $620 to $820 a month, counterbalanced by an exclusivity clause in each contract forbidding...
...both the Harvard faculty member and Rice point out, White is enormously good-natured. Tuesday night, after he had delivered his victory speech to the packed Sheraton-Plaza ballroom, a cordon of Boston police tried to move White and his family through the mob and to an elevator taking him to his private suite. The chain of police finally pushed and shoved through the cheering crowd of celebrators and got the official party into the elevator. The crowd began to move away from the elevator when suddenly the elevator door opened and the Boston police--red-faced--moved...