Word: cordons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...policy. In Oregon, McKay's own state, he is blamed for the shortage of kilowatts which requires dimouts. The Oregon issue is as clear as mountain air: a victory for Journalist Dick Neuberger, the Democratic senatorial candidate, would be a stinging defeat, not just for Republican Senator Guy Cordon, but for McKay and Administration policy...
...respects it was a typical Oklahoma primary, but there was a new feature: this was the first time that troops have been used. Murray ordered the National Guard out after getting reports that votes were being bought in five counties. The Daily Oklahoman dismissed as a futile gesture "a cordon of bayonet-bearing troops around every voting precinct in five counties." But Murray was not impressed. If he hears of more vote-buying, he said, he will order the troops out for the runoff on July...
Colombian university students, singing the national anthem, marched 4,000 strong into downtown Bogota last week to protest the killing of a fellow student in a scuffle with police the day before. At a street corner they were halted by a cordon of rifle-bearing soldiers. For a few minutes, an amiable standoff prevailed. Then, from a balcony overhead, came the report of a pistol. A soldier fell dead...
...elusive underground revolutionist (TIME, Nov. 2), was holed up with fellow plotters in a neat, palm-shaded and hedge-hidden house in the outlying Country Club District. The tipster claimed that the rebels were plotting President Fulgencio Batista's assassination. Police, reinforced by army troops, threw a cordon around the district. As 20 radio patrol cars converged on the quiet residence in West Royal Avenue, a group of men and one woman ran out and scattered, some in cars and some on foot...
...Bermudans, visiting the United States for the first time in recent years, put up a good fight all the way, tallying on a try by Bill Lusher and a field goal by John Cordon. The B.A.A. team is largely composed of the pick of the Island's rugby players...