Word: bier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, Menéndez' body lay in state in the great marble Capitolio in Havana, where thousands passed his bier. All over Cuba sugar workers staged brief protest strikes. Cuba's Communists, who had been wasting away for months, now had a martyr, and they would make the most...
Reeves feels sure that a College purchaser can be found for his luxuriant transparent bier, "a bargain at a hundred bucks," and he reported yesterday that "a couple of fellows have already been around...
Though he had lost some of his preeminence before his death, 100,000 men followed his bier through the streets of Córdoba, where he was born 30 years ago. At week's end bullfighters, gathered in rings throughout Spain, mourned Manolete with the formal pomp which he loved, as a good bullfighter and a good Spaniard must. In Mexico City they remembered that when word of his death came, lightning had been flashing in the darkened sky. At that moment, the crack of balls and shouted bets in the pelota courts had died away, and the voice...
...article gave further instructions: "A team of embalmers working alternately and each exposing himself for only short periods, might complete the embalming process [upon remains not dangerously radioactive]. Such a body might be exhibited to public view provided the visitors file quickly past the bier...
...long been recognized as the traditional symbol of immortality-therefore, by this token, and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Council of Regents ... I do herewith pronounce Carrie Jacobs-Bond an immortal of the Memorial Court of Honor." He placed the crown on the bier...