Word: cordons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other end of the town Communists staged a counterdemonstration. Trouble began to brew. Police threw a cordon around a parkful of Communists and.kept them there from dawn to dusk. Other Communists tried to enter the town and beat up the Monarchists. The police barred the way; a bloody clash occurred. Eleven people were killed, over 30 injured, more than 450 jailed...
...motion to authorize the Government to proceed with certain economies by decree: For the Government, 333; against, 205, or 538 votes out of 620 Deputies. As this motion was being passed an angry mob was only prevented by a strong cordon of police from rushing the Chamber...
...Tokyo was on the streets to witness the passing of Crown Prince Hirohito on his way to a session at the Diet. At one point a young man broke through the police cordon, ran a few steps after the Crown Prince's automobile, and, raising a "cane-gun,"* fired at the Prince. The bullet shattered the glass in the machine but did not harm Hirohito. Viscount Tamemori Irlye, Chamberlain to the Prince Regent, was wounded slightly by the falling glass...
...responsible for having maintained the peace under the most difficult of circumstances, was a signal for a prodigious outburst of enthusiasm from the Turks. When he saluted the Turkish flag and gripped the hand of Salah-Ed-Din Adil Pasha, Military Governor of Constantinople, the crowd broke through the cordon of police and followed the departing Allies to the quay. There was a farewell luncheon party on board the transport Arabic; then the Allies were gone. Later, Turkish troops marched triumphantly into the late capital through streets gay with Turkish flags and strewn with flowers. Religious rites were also solemnized...
...records of the past in the United States and other countries show the effects of still other types of mental astigmatism in the observer. Revered traditions and enshrined heroes of America are protected above by the screaming eagle and on all sides by a cordon of staunch state legislatures, self-chosen guardians of national myths. Any history which puts in question an action of the United States may be thrown out of the schools as foreign propaganda. In the opposite camp are the "heretics" who tell us that whatever is, is probably not right, and who sometimes go afield...