Word: cordons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...workers dropped lighted cigarettes into police horses' mouths, tried to drag the cops from their mounts, hurled horse manure at them. Some young workers climbed onto the stone figures around the entrance, and one Communist agitator even hauled up a Red flag. When a police cordon forced them away from the buildings after six charges, hundreds of demonstrators staged a sitdown strike in the road...
...faint smile playing about her lips, announces that, in gratitude to the French people, "we're going to send them one of our own masterpieces," the "Sleigh Ride" by Grandma Moses. "Sleigh" travels to Europe in the Captain's Cabin of the S.S. United States, surrounded by a cordon of 500 Marines. President de Gaulle expresses frigid thanks, says he would have preferred one ICBM. The French people flock to see "Sleigh"; they think Grandma Moses looks like Mrs. Kennedy...
Concerned over the swelling tide of seaborne refugees, Hong Kong police have been searching up to 500 junks a day in the teeming waters around the city. But many slip through the cordon. When tragedy strikes, as it did for the 32 hapless victims who drowned off eastern Hong Kong, the trade falls off for a few days. Then the human cargos begin moving once more across the Pearl River estuary. Says Father Luis Ruiz of Macao's Roman Catholic Casa Ricci, which has sheltered more than 35,000 refugees from Red China in past years, "Nothing will stop...
...steel-rimmed-glasses granny (Irene Ryan) is cordon bluegrass when it comes to cooking hawg jowls, fat back, corn pone, mustard greens, salted-down possum belly, squirrel shanks, crow gizzards, and boiled toad. Her granddaughter Elly May resembles Al Capp's Daisy Mae from head to toes, notably in profile. She is a tomboy, but she somehow wears Levi's as if they were a bikini. Actress Donna Douglas is typecast in the part. A few years ago she was the best hot-pepper eater in Baywood, La., where she also played boys' football, pitched in softball...
Author Rombauer, widowed since her husband's death in 1930, became a celebrity of sorts. Fan mail, at the rate of 2,000 letters a day, streamed into her St. Louis home; the Cordon Bleu and London's Flower School brought out an English edition of The Joy of Cooking; the story goes that an eloping bride sent her family a cable-AM MARRIED. ORDER ANNOUNCEMENTS. SEND ME ROMBAUER COOKBOOK AT ONCE...