Word: cathedrales
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"Hail to the Chief" sounded outside, one last time for the 38th President. Then service members, four on each side, walked the casket to the front of the cathedral, placing it gently on a stand covered in black satin. The choir sang a soothing version of "America the Beautiful."
The nation's political establishment, 3,244 strong, filed solemnly into the Washington National Cathedral for a service, as the program put it, "in celebration of and thanksgiving for" Gerald Rudolph Ford, President of the United States in the tumultuous post-Watergate years. Bob Michel, Al D'Amato, Paul Laxalt...
It was an imperial farewell for a simple man. The hymns, prayers and Bible readings by two of his four children, John (Jack) Ford and Susan Ford Bales, echoed through the stained-glass splendor of a cathedral that is the sixth largest in the world and second largest in the...
He was the cranky uncle at Christmas dinner, daring to utter indiscretions about the family members who were trying to talk over his bad manners. He was the eternal renegade, refusing to make feel-good movies or boys'-life adventures or simple melodramas - simple anything. For more than 35 years...
And yet, in spite of the Islamists' disreputable allies, many Somalis cannot remember a time when they felt safer. For Americans, the single, searing image of Somalia was formed in October 1993, after two U.S. Black Hawk helicopters--part of a U.S. mission to provide humanitarian relief and restore order...