Word: cordons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thermann, who wanted him to face the music, went into hiding. As soon as Investigator Damonte learned that Sandstede was on the run he ordered his arrest. Police were posted at his house and at the German Embassy. Pickets stood guard along the roads leading from Buenos Aires. A cordon was stretched around the airport...
Through this cordon a suspicious looking car tried to pass. The police halted it, arrested Karl Heinz Sandstede, brother of the fugitive. Thinking they had the right man, they relaxed their watch. Early the next morning Gottfried Sandstede boarded a Condor plane for Brazil. As he arrived in Rio de Janeiro Ambassador von Thermann announced blandly that Herr Sandstede had been recalled to Berlin to report on anti-German activities in Argentina...
Gaulle stopped his motorcade, stepped out of his car and gravely saluted the Lebanese flag. At this gesture the Lebanese went wild, broke the police cordon surrounding the generals' car, flocked around De Gaulle cheering...
Beethoven: Missa Solemmis (Serge Koussevitzky conducting the Boston Symphony, with Soprano Jeannette Vreeland, Contralto Anna Kaskas, Tenor John Priebe, Basso Norman Cordon, the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society; Victor; 24 sides; two volumes; $13). Beethoven, a great-souled humanitarian rather than a churchgoer, wrote his Solemn Mass for the installation of an archduke as an archbishop (he finished it three years too late). One of the greatest and most complicated of choral works it receives here a great recording-assembled from three different concert performances in Boston...
...after his confidence about the Speech from the Throne, the Premier answered a summons to the Palace. There the young King hung about his neck the Grand Cordon of Mohammed Ali-highest honor Egypt can bestow. Proudly Sabry Pasha proceeded to the Chamber of Deputies to deliver his King's short speech. The Chamber was packed, and brilliantly. In the visitors' section sat beautiful Queen Farida, demure in a white veil; the jeweled wives of Egypt's aristocrats; diplomats in all their brocade; generals in all their braid. The King sat a few feet from the rostrum...