Word: casket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then, in accordance with Oscar Whitenack's wishes, the record of his funeral oration was laid on his chest, sealed in the casket and buried with...
After weeks of wrangling, peace came with the autumn to 1,200-year-old Horyuzi Temple when ancient Abbot Join Saeki at last decided to let scientists dig for a casket supposedly containing the ashes of Buddha. There was only one condition: the casket could be opened only by a picked seven-man committee acceptable to the abbot. "Tampering with an old structure," said Saeki, "is tantamount to vivisection...
...said Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, the second most important return of a dead hero in Jewish history; the most important, said Ben-Gurion, occurred 3,300 years ago when the Jews carried Joseph's casket back to Palestine from their Egyptian exile. But after the ceremony was over, most Israelis seemed too busy building their new country to be emotional about the prophet's return. The attitude of brisk irreverence was expressed by one Tel Aviv paper which ran a cartoon showing a man kneeling before Herzl's coffin. "Why do you weep...
...seemed to be really ill. Last week, Moscow announced that he had died of diabetes in a sanitarium near the Russian capital. The body lay in state in Moscow; the Russian radio added that music played softly while "thousands & thousands of the working people" filed past Dimitrov's casket...
...hundred thousand Athenians watched as Sophoulis' casket was drawn to burial by an armored car. "Come to give him the last kiss," intoned Athens' Archbishop Spyridon during the funeral service. The King and Queen stepped up and kissed the casket; Frederika had tears in her eyes...