Word: coffin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist Manifesto of 1848, wended his way to Britain's University of Durham, to harangue some 350 students on his threadbare theme of "world peace through trust in the Soviet Union." He had barely begun babbling when seven students entered the hall, bore down the aisle a coffin draped in Hungary's national colors, solemnly rested it before his rostrum. Chirped the Red Dean nervously, as applause filled the building: "May wars cease." After finishing his speech, he discovered that he should have hung onto his black Homburg. Some enterprising students had swiped it, later raffled...
...kind of historian emeritus among English medievalists, has long repressed a suspicion that the 1912 discovery of the Melpham Tomb was a grandiose hoax on a par with Piltdown Man. The remains of a 7th century Christian bishop named Eorpwald had been found in the tomb. But in the coffin rested a shockingly priapic fertility idol. Ever since, disconcerted historians had been trying to adjust their theories to this evidence that the good bishop had relapsed into paganism. But Middleton knows something his fellow medievalists do not. Soon after the un earthing, the discoverer's son, Gilbert Stokesay, boasted...
...Governor Edmund Sixtus Muskie, 42, running for a second term against Willis A. Trafton Jr., 37, speaker of the state house of representatives, had been conceded an edge, but he was highly surprised by his 179,697-to-123,784 victory. Lewiston Lawyer and Democratic State Chairman Frank M. Coffin fared even more spectacularly by winning, for the first time in 22 years, the Democratic congressional seat in the industrial (Lewiston) Second District. Democrat James C. Oliver lost his fight for Congressman from the industrial First District (Portland) to five-term Representative Robert Hale by only 28 votes...
Muskie and Trafton were running neck and neck, the First and Third Congressional Districts looked safely Republican, but in the Second (Lewiston-Augusta) District, Frank M. Coffin, 36, Democratic state chairman, was given an even chance to become the first Democratic Congressman from Maine in 22 years...
Your Harry Truman cover story is superb. And Mark Twain would have loved those lines about Harry Truman wanting to be buried in a mulberry coffin so he could "go through hell crackin' and poppin'." Two Missouri boys-Mark Twain and Harry Truman. Boys to be proud...