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Word: cordons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Above the Rond-Point subway station the parade was met by a cordon of police. An inspector reminded the leaders that the law permitted no demonstration in the upper half of the Champs Elysées without special authorization. To reach the Arc de Triomphe, they must make a detour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Counterpoint | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

Goalposts, always a vital subject to the HAA, fared better Saturday than on other occasions this season. The first phalanx of disgruntled Providence natives discovered a small but firm police cordon which politely informed them that Mr. Bingham felt no compulsion to donate his posts in the light of the final score...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: Sleepy Bear Cub, Amateur Aerialist Liven Bruin Game | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...squad of British MPs raced to the scene, formed a cordon that easily pushed the crowd back. (One British officer came running with his camera, and a Berliner watching him snapped bitterly: "How typical! The Russians come with machine guns and the British with their cameras!") The riots ended with only one dead-a 15-year-old boy shot through the groin by Soviet-sector police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: He Who Surrenders Berlin | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

...Lucas, who runs Manhattan's Cordon Bleu Restaurant and cooking school, is something of a television sensation. Recently, she had to hire a secretary to handle the mail (900 letters a week after an average program, as many as 1,500 after a particularly tasty-looking dish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Airborne Recipes | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

...Stove-Struck. Mrs. Lucas, who once ran a restaurant in London, arrived in the U.S. in 1942, with two trunks of pots & pans and no money. With borrowed funds and a $40 stove which she "found in a junk heap,"she started the Cordon Bleu. Several thousand students (including such stove-struck celebrities as Harold Lloyd, Joan Fontaine and Nicholas Roosevelt, and many a society girl about to marry) have gone to school in her kitchen. Mrs. Lucas does all the marketing, cooking, teaching and telecasting herself, and writes cookbooks in her spare time (last week she was working...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Airborne Recipes | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

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