Word: bierring
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...blocks outside the Capitol in such numbers that even at the rate of 6,000 an hour, there was no chance that those at the end of the line could get in before the funeral procession Monday morning. They never stopped. At 2 a.m., a wornan walked by the bier wheeling an infant asleep in a stroller. A blind man was led by the casket, his companion softly whispering a description of the scene. At 2:30 a.m., Jersey Joe Walcott, onetime heavyweight champion of the world, went by. He had waited eight hours in line...
Just before dawn, an ambulance drew up to the White House portico, and U.S. servicemen carried Kennedy's casket into the East Room. On a blackshrouded catafalque, John F. Kennedy lay in state. His sleepless wife viewed him for the last time, and then the bier was sealed...
Twenty-one candles were placed by the bier; 16 guards kept watch around the clock. That night the Pope lay alone, except for guards, almost on the spot from which he had addressed his his toric Vatican Council II. In the next two days, more than 1,000,000 people shuffled by the body to pay their last respects. On Thursday night, the body, inside a triple coffin of walnut, lead and cypress, was placed in the crypt beneath St. Peter's; eventually, in accordance with John's wishes, it will be moved to the Basilica...
...psychologists had a friendly, ecumenical view of clerical neurosis. Jesuit William C. Bier, chairman of Fordham's psychology department, said that the priesthood has a particular attraction for the potential schizophrenic. Dr. Fred Brown, chief psychologist at Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital, reported that many rabbinical candidates were sick, but "no 'sicker' than the ministerial candidates of the Roman Catholics and Protestants...
Though 35 years had passed since her swooning body draped the bier of Cinema Idol Rudolph Valentino, Polish-born Pola Negri, 63, still held some aspects of her fabled romance with Valentino too sacred to reveal. Interviewed by Columnist Bob Considine at her San Antonio home, the onetime goddess of the silent screen wistfully recalled that "Rudolph loved to make spaghetti and meatballs. He had his own special recipe. I never tire of it, and I will never share with anyone else the secret of his meat sauce...