Word: casket
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...casket was kept closed during the funeral, as morgue officials said the body was too decomposed...
...teammate. We don't learn why the teammate died, or why the pitcher has lost his stuff, his smoke. All that matters is the single word with which the pitcher answers two terrible questions. The first is asked by the teammate's small son, who looks at the casket and says, "Is my daddy in there?" The second is the query of a friendly sportswriter who asks whether the pitcher realizes he may never recapture his skill. "Yes" is the bitter double answer. Smoke, indeed, from a fireballing phenom...
...soldiers to be killed in action in Operation Desert Storm. He turned 21 last August, just two days before leaving for Saudi Arabia. He was killed, perhaps by friendly fire, in a clash near the Kuwait border. On Feb. 9 he returned home to Coulterville in a flag-draped casket, both a hero and a haunting reminder of war's real cost. His handsome freckled face reflects the human toll of a conflict sanitized by high-tech smart bombs and camouflaged by antiseptic acronyms like KIA (killed in action...
...several cups of coffee with him at the breakfast table three weeks before he left for Saudi Arabia. Two days before the funeral, Tom paid a solitary visit to the funeral home in nearby Sonora. He propped Thom's wooden-framed portrait in front of the gunmetal-gray steel casket, then stood quietly to one side, his eyes misting up. It was the first time he'd been alone with his son since Thom ) returned from the Persian Gulf. "Good memories flow," said Jenkins. "They just keep flowing...
...dragging the needle across a record to create an even harsher sound. While these brash mixes played, M.C.s, or rappers, would exhort the crowd with chants: "When I die, bury me deep;/ Put two speakers at my feet,/ A mixer at my head,/ So that when you close the casket/ I can rock the dead...