Word: cordoning
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...dinner in the Gran Hotel, Rios heard speakers damn the Somoza regime. Since the Chilean embassy is located in the hotel, it was technically inviolable. Somoza's police, attempting to enter and arrest the speakers, were thrown out. Later the police formed a cordon around the hotel. Some Nicaraguans stayed on & on, not daring to leave...
...firm peace. . . . A prescription has been found [by the Times]; eastern tendencies must be opposed by western ones, and for this purpose elements in western European countries who are displeased with the new democratic arrangements of eastern Europe and who are now dreaming once again of setting up a cordon sanitaire against the U.S.S.R. must be encouraged. The tendencies of the democratic forces in France, Italy and other western European states are well-known. They are trying to establish close collaboration with all democratic states in the interest of ensuring universal security. These tendencies apparently displease certain personalities in London...
Meanwhile the Nazis began to hole up in their southern redoubt in real earnest. The area around Berchtesgaden, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Starnberg and Miesbach was guarded by a double cordon of Himmler's blackshirts, and no one could pass without proper credentials. If, as seemed likely, the Russians and the western Allies should soon meet south of Berlin, the bastion would be cut off from northern Germany. Then the Allies would see how seriously the Nazis intended to fight in it, and how well they were able...
...Cross benefit performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony has been moved from the Boston Garden to Symphony Hall. A joint effort of the Harvard Glee Club, Radcliffe Choral Society, Serge Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and Mettropolitan Opera stars Eleanor Steeber, Kirsten Thorborg, Kurt Baum, and Norman Cordon, this performance, the first of its kind of this work since 1943, is estimated from advance sales to come to about...
Along the highway south of the camp the rattle of automatic rifles was now heavily punctuated by cannon fire. Jap troops from the direction of Cabanatuan were trying to break through a cordon which the rescue party had thrown across the highway. The Japs were rumbling up in tanks...