Word: cordons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chief island. They expected the Blues to attempt to establish an air base on the island of Lanai. Seven Black airplanes were dispatched to Lanai to hinder the Blues. The Blacks, with about 15,000 troops available, were required to keep 4,000 to man the fortifications. A cordon of troops was established at all the available landing beaches, and the remainder were held in reserve near the west coast, which was regarded as the most dangerous and the most likely point of attack...
Another home town, last week, prepared to welcome a returning singer. The local press published a diatribe, mentioning in angry terms certain incidents in her past. Exasperated crowds lined the streets through which she drove. When she sang at the opera house, a police cordon was considered necessary to keep her from violence. She was Madame Maria Jeritza who, though born in Brünn, early showed that she had no Czech complex by wedding...
...drugged and near death in his automobile before his house. Detectives are called. In their presence and that of his family the guardian, about to revive, is shot dead. No one sees the murderer. The search amid exciting intrigue continues all night in a house guarded by a cordon of detectives. Towards morning the murderer is discovered and the book ends...
...wall and a large section of the roof of the Cathedral crumbled and crashed to the ground; many surrounding buildings were ruined, windows for yards around splintered. The crowd stood still for one ghastly second, then fled pellmell. Amid cries of the wounded and dying the military threw a cordon around the stricken area, filled with poisonous fumes from the exploded pyroxylin bomb. Surgeons, soldiers and members of the Cabinet-except Minister of the Interior Rouseff and Minister of Justice Boloshersky (dead), Premier Tsankoff and War Minister Vulkoff (slightly injured)-rendered first aid to the victims. When the final accounting...
Team work was the issue on which the game was decided. Throughout the two twenty-minute halves, the former Crimson players were unable to penetrate far into the five-man cordon thrown about the Harvard basket. In the second half, Gordon recaptured some of his last year's long distance skill, but the visitors offense was never dangerous...