Word: bier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Netherlands have contributed more than tulip bulbs and wooden shoes to the furtherance of civilization. On our five-day cruise through the Dutch canals we found "Heineken's Bier" superior to any brand on tap at Jim Cronin's. Judging by our boat, however, the country's sea power is declining. "The "Swallow IT" was a 20-foot converted life boat with a lowerable mast which left the vessel still too high to go under bridges, an engine which required the constant attention of two deafencd men, and a stove that never worked. But the scenery and the people made...
...from Vienna bearing Herzl's body was met at the Lydda airport by an honor guard of Israeli soldiers, sailors and air force men holding aloft gleaming, unsheathed sabers. The metal coffin, encased in a wooden box and covered with a prayer shawl, was placed on a black bier and carried to a catafalque on the Mediterranean Promenade of Tel Aviv. At dawn a 300-car cortege followed the coffin to a hill outside Jerusalem which had been renamed the Givat Herzl (Herzl's Hill). In groups of ten, farmers, workers, businessmen, old settlers and new immigrants slowly...
When Lenin died in 1924, so many Russians filed past his bier that a Soviet leader asked: "Could we not make a semi-permanent thing of it?" Professors Boris Zbarsky and Vladimir Vorobyev went to work, and after four months announced they had found a method that would preserve Lenin's body intact indefinitely...
...hotel room a hoard of $300,000 in Government bonds wrapped up in old newspapers, and a "small fortune" in diamonds, rubies and pearls in a sugar sack. A man who came to the funeral remembered one thing about her: she had sung Oh Promise Me at the bier of President McKinley...
...newspaper buildup but word of mouth that sent thousands of fans and curiosity-seekers to Yankee Stadium, the "House That Ruth Built," after his widow agreed (too late for most afternoon papers to report it) that he should lie in state there. Whether 82,000 people filed past his bier, or 97,000, or 115,000, depended on which paper you read. Reporters patrolled the shuffling line to extract suitably printable comment...