Word: cordons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...setting was pure John le Carré. Alerted to the story, a crowd of journalists waited under the trees outside Bonn's University Clinic, separated from the hospital by a cordon of green-uniformed policemen armed with submachine guns. When a nearby police helicopter started its engine without warning, the newsmen broke toward the aircraft in a dead run, hoping to catch a glimpse of the passenger inside...
...kind of place even Reinhart would admire. Amid the book-and sculpture-filled sunny rooms, Thomas Berger, 57, and his artist-wife of 30 years, Jeanne, browse through their sizable collection of cookbooks and photography volumes. The kitchen contains a batterie de cuisine that would flatter a cordon bleu chef. "I love to read about food and look at pictures of it," says the author. "I'm so into cooking we rarely go out to eat any more." It is an unsurprising revelation from a recluse who not only shuns TV appearances and parties but waited six years before...
Refusing to take an alternate route, the defiant drivers left their vehicles in the street. About three dozen police reinforcements and several antiriot trucks arrived to cordon off the forbidden zone. The resulting traffic jam blocked one of the capital's busiest intersections and set the scene for a two-day standoff that turned into the largest political rally since the country's unprecedented liberalization process began last summer...
Last Saturday more than 400 New Zealanders broke through a cordon to occupy the rugby field in Hamilton, forcing a Springbok match to be cancelled. As police tried to drag away the protesters, irate spectators jumped the fence and joined the tussle...
...Owens had watched it start, hearing what she called "a queer swishing noise" and then a "ploop" as a big sycamore tree in the next lot plummeted straight into the earth. She called the police. They could do nothing but cordon off the area as thousands of sightseers arrived to watch the hole grow. The owner of a $40,000 1979 Porsche 928 hired a helicopter and then a construction crane to retrieve his car, in for repairs at a garage bitten into by the hole...