Word: coffin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Young Vasily marched behind his mother's coffin on the slow parade from Red Square to Moscow's Novodevichy Cemetery. Her friends saw a thin, undersized eleven-year-old with close-cropped hair. He had been closer to his mother than to his doting but busy father; Nadezhda liked to say that he was a "real dzhigit...
Three days later in Amman, its dusty capital, Jordan buried Abdullah. In his simple palace, men chanted verses from the Koran. As Abdullah's coffin was carried out to a waiting caisson, crowds of women wailed "Sayedna" (Our Master), tore their clothes and beat their bodies...
Most unusual of the spot assignments was a request by the Museum of Comparative Zoology for a man to clean out a coffin at $1 an hour. Beaver Country Day School in Chestnut Hill hired a babysitter for two ponies through the office, while the cafeteria in Fenway Park asked for an office manager, offering an extra dollar for double-headers...
Cleaning Out Coffin...
Carloads of funeral wreaths preceded the flag-draped coffin through Istanbul's streets to the Monument of Eternal Liberty. Turks by the thousands marched in the long cortege that followed, and lined the streets with heads bowed in reverence. All of Turkey paused for a moment last week as the long-dead bones of Midhat Pasha were brought home from exile for proper burial in his native land. Said a spectator: "This is a day not for sorrowing, but for rejoicing...