Word: casketful
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...Brezhnev's funeral rites contains some wondrously macabre details. When the overweight leader's body was placed in its coffin at Moscow's Hall of Trade Unions, the bottom of the shoddily made box collapsed, and the body fell to the floor. A new, metal-reinforced casket was later taken to the burial site on Red Square, where it was supposed to be reverently lowered into an open grave. What actually happened remained unexplained to the millions of Soviet citizens watching the televised interment. The coffin proved too heavy for the two funeral attendants who were holding...
...largest public gatherings since martial law was imposed 17 months ago, nearly 60,000 people thronged the church for the funeral services and joined in the hour-long procession to the cemetery. Fastened to the front of the casket was a red-and-white Solidarity banner. At the graveside, mourners tossed flowers on the casket and then raised their fingers in the V sign that has become the symbol of Polish resistance to authorities. Many wiped away tears as Przemyk's teacher declared: "Greg, I regret that I didn't have time to prepare you for the brutality...
...wooden casket was then placed on an army gun carriage and taken in a slow moving procession to the cemetery A 21 gun salute echoed across the mountain peaks of central Lebanon as the 34 year old slam leader was lowered into his grave to the drumbeat of an army band
...Stavros felt they should not have exhibited the body. Two hundred pounds had come down to one hundred and forty. As Stavros walked up to the casket, he remembered how Morgan Perry used to speak to him: 'You Greeks with olive oil in your veins instead of blood,' he used to say, 'you come here to see what you can get out of us, you and those other Mediterranean niggers. You grab what you can, then go back with our money. Make it here, spend it there; take everything, give nothing. Tell me what...
...would dye his dirty-blond hair black, imitating a hoody Tony Curtis in the 1949 Brooklyn gang movie City Across the River. When Gladys died of a heart attack in 1958, the King of Rock 'n' Roll was still on apron strings. He demanded that her casket be opened. Then he babbled childish words to her "sooties"-their private name for feet...