Word: cordoning
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...band of 10,000 fell into ragged cadence. "We don't want a People's Army. We want free elections," cried one man, and others took it up. The mumble became a shout. Then it suddenly stopped -at the end of the street, in front of a cordon of dark green riot trucks, stood a wall of People's Police, their grey raincoats agleam, their arms locked elbow to elbow. For a moment the front of the column hesitated and the marchers in the rear piled up in comic confusion. Then the 10,000 plunged ahead, disregarding...
...Democrats' Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner in Portland, a political rumor whooshed in ahead of him. Its component parts: 1) Independent, ex-Republican Morse, whose term in the Senate does not expire until 1956, will run for Senator in 1954, on the Democratic ticket and against Republican Guy Cordon; 2) if Morse wins, his pull on independent and liberal Republican voters might also sweep a Democratic governor into office; 3) Morse would resign his present Senate seat to take on his new one, and 4) the Democratic governor would appoint a Democrat to fill Morse's unexpired old term...
...wanted to debate them all. Night after night they sent a steady stream of speakers forward to keep parliament in session until dawn; when larynxes failed, they used fists, chair legs and football rushes. Once, as a vote approached on an important maneuver, Red Boss Palmiro Togliatti deployed a cordon of Communist deputies around the ballot box to keep others from voting. One by one, pro-government deputies managed to break through to drop small wooden balls (white for yes, black for no) into the box. Infuriated, the Reds tossed all the voting equipment into the air, kicked...
...blunt words and the police cordon were part of a wrangle that began a fortnight ago with the closing of one Church of Christ in northern Italy, and reached a climax last week when the Italian government closed all 22 of them. In three years of missionary work in Roman Catholic Italy, Church of Christ missionaries have made only 450 converts. Some of their followers, after accepting gifts of food and clothing, have gone back to Catholicism. But until the closing, the outlook for more converts still seemed hopeful...
...they had during the 1948 Berlin blockade, and demanded daily instead of the routine monthly payments on all rail freight charges. West Berliners were delighted by a tit-for-tat British gesture: surrounding for seven days a Communist radio station in the British sector with barbed wire and a cordon of tam-o'-shan-tered Scottish troops, trapping inside 40 East Germans and 20 Russian soldiers...