Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...honor guard took the coffin into the sunshine. A band struck up Hail to the Chief-usually a tune of cheerful dignity, but on this day a doleful dirge. On the steps, Caroline brushed a tear from her eye. John-John, who was to have had his third birthday party that day, suddenly looked up and saw the flag on his father's casket. Jackie leaned over to whisper to him, and he saluted. The funeral procession began the last three miles to the cemetery...
Then, at the family's request, John Kennedy would be buried amid the wooded hills of Arlington National Cemetery across the Potomac. It would be on his son's third birthday...
...Monday, when John F. Kennedy was buried, John Jr. became three years old. Today is Caroline Kennedy's birthday, and tomorrow is Thanksgiving...
...evening of his life he married a second wife, Shirley Graham. In a small house in Brooklyn, DuBois continued his research. Though in his own country he had been persecuted, peoples of the new nations did not forget him. Delegations from the United Nations visited his home. His 90th birthday was honored throughout the People's Republic of China. The Soviet Union awarded him the Lenin International Peace Prize. And at the end of his years Dr. Kwame Nkrumah invited him to come to Africa and begin what someday may be considered his greatest contribution, the Encyclopaedia Africana. He became...
This memoir begins in the breathless manner of a modern Ouida. The place: Berlin. The time: 1927. The occasion: the brilliant polyglot birthday party of a great lady shining with the glamour of international journalism in an age of prima donna correspondents...