Word: cordoning
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...draped in black. Behind Christ's flower-decked bier, members of the Greek government formed a procession which slowly wound through streets lined with spectators holding lighted candles. In the procession snowy-haired, handsome Minister of Justice Christos Ladas whispered to Athens Police Chief Angelos Evert: "Why the cordon of police around us? You do seem to take unnecessary precautions...
...Amended the Neutrality Act to give the President authority to arm merchant ships in emergencies. ¶Received a report from Oregon's Guy Cordon, chairman of a Subcommittee on Territories and Insular Affairs, recommending statehood for Hawaii...
Cocos shook their fists, called their opponents "American lackeys." A group of anti-Reds retorted by singing The Volga Boatmen. When Cachin left the chairman's seat, the second oldest member, 75-year-old Maurice Viollette, was hustled forward to take his place. But a cordon of Reds barred...
...seemed to be the word) with the possibilities of the atom. One current and quite plausible notion of how to keep the Red Army from seizing Europe: drop intensely poisonous atomic dust to form a barrier between the U.S.S.R. and the land to the west of it. Such a cordon might last for years; it would not, however, prevent the Russians from developing bacteriological weapons, possibly more deadly than the atom (see MEDICINE), which could be sent across the barrier...
...campaign has been partly successful. Last summer, with a brief discussion and a 196-to-133 vote, the House approved statehood for Hawaii. Next month the Senate will send Oregon's Guy Cordon to make another one of several congressional on-the-spot investigations. When the Senate takes a vote in its regular session next year, democracy will get an acid test. But it will be the mainland's democracy which gets the test. For Hawaii is the most democratic area under the U.S. flag...