Word: cordons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this out, take no more than 16? in markups. Thus farmers will be discouraged from selling potatoes on hand or increasing their plantings. OPS, which has already brought 70 black-marketeers to court, faced trouble of another sort this week: 300 Detroit jobbers went on strike, threw a cordon of trucks around Detroit's Produce Terminal warehouse in protest against government interference...
...Eisenhower, who usually wears only three ribbons on his jacket (Army & Navy, D.S.M.s and the Legion of Merit), holds 43 foreign decorations, e.g., Britain's Order of Merit (limited to 24 living holders), France's Grand Cordon of the Legion of Honor, Russia's topflight Order of Suvorov, Poland's Cross of Grunwald, Tunisia's Grand Cordon of Nishan Iftikar. Last week France awarded him the Médaille Militaire, the highest French military decoration...
...installment plan because he had no ready cash. A narrow escape from Tommy-gun slugs a year ago has made Syria's dictator even more shy and retiring. At cocktail parties he is careful not to turn his back on door or window, and surrounds himself with a cordon of watchful guards...
...years ago, the police captain in charge of crime prevention in Cambridge actually set the stage for the perpetration of a crime, as far as we were concerned. He threw a cordon of police cars around the Center. He placed one of our most belligerent enemies (Evelyn's father) on the steps of St. Paul's across the street from the Center...
...brisk business in party symbols, while raucous students, their colleges identifiable by the color of their scarves, greeted the election results with boos and cheers. The crowd's mood was more festive than partisan. Piccadilly's streetwalkers were out in three times their usual force, and a cordon of policemen surrounded the boarded-over statue of Eros to ward off the drunks who always want to climb it on such occasions. At the Savoy, a gilded party of 2,000 (including Noel Coward, Cecil Beaton, Merle Oberon and Sharman Douglas) joined Press Lord Viscount Camrose of the Daily...