Word: caissons
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...Caisson Club, H-R Catholic Student Center, Charles River Literary Society, Harvard Chess Club, H-R Christian Fellowship, Christian Science Organization at Harvard, Harvard Classical Club, Clean, Harvard Conservation Club, Harvard Undergraduate Council, H-R Policy Committee, The Harvard Crimson, Crimson Key Society, Harvard Cycling Club...
...funeral obsequies themselves were planned to take careful note of the detailed habits and personal preferences of der Alte. Through the streets of the village of RhÖndorf, where he had so often walked, rolled his caisson, passing the white Catholic church in which he had worshiped, crossing his beloved Rhine on a ferry beneath the brooding Drachenfels. It proceeded over the exact route through Bonn that Adenauer had always taken on his way to the Bundestag. There, on the very spot where for 14 years as Chancellor Adenauer had presided over Cabinet meetings, the simple brown oak coffin...
...staff and patient share all the dangers of the deep-sea diver. There is nitrogen narcosis, or Cousteau's "raptures of the deep"-also known as "the martini effect"-caused by excess nitrogen; "oxygen ebullience," a kind of euphoria resulting from excess oxygen; and finally, "the bends" or "caisson disease," from too-rapid decompression...
...nation's TV viewers know from watching many an open Cadillac -or caisson-make the trip, Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., has both grandeur and grubbiness. As it stretches toward the Capitol, the stalwart neoclassical façades of federal buildings rise evenly on the right. But on the left side is an uneven collection of old hotels, decayed storefronts vacant above the first floor, and dreary parking lots...
...roll of muffled drums, 100 sailors of the Royal Hellenic Navy towed the caisson carrying the coffin of King Paul of the Hellenes through the streets of Athens. Flanking the coffin were 20 evzones in tasseled red hats, pleated kilts and pompon shoes, their weapons carried upside down in mourning. Aides carried Paul's decorations on red velvet cushions, and after the carriage came the King's riderless white horse...