Word: coffin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Curtin's reaction was drastic. Last month he posted a sign overlooking King David Memorial Garden, which said: "Investigation has disclosed underground streams with considerable flow just below the surface of this entire area. If you insist on being buried [here] please use a coffin of a type that will retard contamination of our well." A fortnight ago, five 25-ft. gallows, equipped with hangman's nooses, appeared on the Curtin property, looming lugubriously over the cemetery. Soon, Curtin promised, he would add realistic dummies...
...Coffin Lid. The turning point of the air war came when the Allies sent long-range fighters-Mustangs, Lightnings and Thunderbolts-to escort daylight bombers deep into the Reich. Engaged on equal terms, and soon outnumbered, the Messerschmitts came off worst. Knoke was shot down twice more in a month, but even after he suffered a fractured skull, he flew on. "Every time I have an enemy in my sights ... I watch him crash, coldly and dispassionately, without any sense of triumph...
...pasted up for pilots who did not return from "the great fighter graveyard of the west" grew longer in Knoke's mess. Morale slumped; defeat stared. "Every time I close the canopy," Knoke wrote in August 1944, "I feel that I am closing the lid of my own coffin . . . Every day, the number of aircraft diminishes . . . The German Fighter Command is slowly bleeding to death...
...Coffin broke Dartmouth's backstroke record down at Princeton and, with Phil Pendleton, may surprise the varsity's All-American, Don Mulvey. Off the board Dartmouth has Jim Venman and Tuck Creamer, which means the Crimson divers will have to be good...
...practicing in a small city, the lawyer is able to deal with a wide variety of cases," Coffin stated. "While the lawyer in a metropolis is forced to specialize, the small practitioner can try cases in civil, criminal, domestic, and other types of law," he added...