Word: coffin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cases which did not respond to the lash, the pliers, the hot wires and the other accepted tools of his craft, Ulbricht fashioned a tiny cell of granite blocks in which a prisoner could neither stand nor sit. Those who lived to tell called it Ulbricht's "stone coffin...
From his first cartoon for the P-D 40 years ago (an attack on wooden railroad coaches showing a train of coffin-shaped cars rounding a bend of track) to his poignant chronicle of the Depression (a beaten, slumped worker standing in front of a soup kitchen-"One Person Out of Ten") and his savage jabs at the Republican campaign (McCarthy, Cain and Jenner waiting at the stage entrance to go on in a show called "Ike's Crusade"), Fitz has drawn with power and simplicity...
...iceman and shipyard worker, I defy anyone to try to carry a coffin with the position his hand is in. The handle would slip out of his fingers. And it is not even resting on his shoulder. And can't you almost hear him groaning under his burden? Just try to carry a load and see what happens to the other arm. It just doesn't drape gracefully at your side...
Compatibility. In Fort Scott, Kans., Robert Locke and Beverly Key took out a marriage license. In Miami, Elizabeth Coffin announced her engagement to Lloyd Graves...
...homesteaders dancing and setting off homemade explosives at a July 4 party; bloody fistfighting in a saloon; little girls solemnly watching a sow with her sucklings; the ring of hand axes against a stump; tumbleweed brushing the legs of jittery horses; a harmonica solo of taps as a pine coffin is lowered into a hilltop grave Without recourse to tricky 3-D photography and Polaroid glasses, Stevens, with ordinary Technicolor camera and sound track has given his flat old story a real third dimension of believability...