Word: coffin
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...funeral drew the high and mighty. But Perpétuo belonged to the favelados, and 5,000 of them turned out to march in the procession, and crowd around his coffin for a last look, or touch, or tear. After the burial, leaders of the "Skeleton" favela solemnly met to discuss changing the name to "Perpétuo" favela. "He would have liked that," was the explanation...
...COFFIN FOR KING CHARLES, by C. V. Wedgwood. This cool, precise account of the infamous trial and execution of England's Charles I does not take sides between the King and Oliver Cromwell, but history has already decided the case: Charles is noble and brave, and Cromwell remains the ambitious, dour man who made revolution and regicide popular...
...COFFIN FOR KING CHARLES, by C. V. Wedgwood. This cool, precise account of the infamous trial and execution of England's Charles I does not take sides between the King and Oliver Cromwell, but history has already decided the case: Charles is noble and brave, and Cromwell remains the ambitious, dour man who made revolution and regicide popular...
...COFFIN FOR KING CHARLES by C. V. Wedgewood. 307 pages. Macm...
...maintenance of national unity." On the day of the funeral, police blocked off 3½ miles of Paris' busiest boulevards, and half a million people stood in the sweltering heat as the mile-long procession headed for Père-Lachaise. Ahead of the flag-draped coffin strode ranks of miners from Thorez' native north, wearing red scarves and white helmets. Behind the hearse walked row after row of foreign Communist officials. At the cemetery Waldeck Rochet, who succeeded Thorez as secretary-general only ten weeks ago, paid respects to his old chief...