Word: coffin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yale Chaplain William Sloane Coffin, a man of unimpeachable conscience and motivation, whose Thoreau-like dissent has inspired thousands and ennobled...
...angels of peace were being visited upon New Haven to calm the seething inhabitants and to show the benighted the light of coeducational normalcy and tranquility. The ever-present smiles on the faces of the girls were almost beatific, surely maternal, and terribly altruistic. Reverend Coffin said that Coeducation Week was an effort to "reincarnate communities--to transform them from cold routinized bureaucracy into a warm organic existence." We were helping those poor guys, oh yes we were. It was very strange, indeed...
...Yale Chaplain William Sloane Coffin observes, the test of intelligence is not what men know how to do, but "how they behave when they don't know what...
Moscow's crematory hall echoed with the somber notes of Chopin's Funeral March as the group of 200 mourners stood around the open coffin. They listened quietly as a tall, ramrod-straight man, his voice choked with emotion, eulogized its occupant. Suddenly, the cavernous hall's public-address system crackled out a brusque announcement that the group's time was up. Then, before more than a handful of mourners had been able to plant a parting kiss on the dead man's forehead, a woman in a black smock slid a cover...
...Ohio: Students at Ohio State University in Columbus burned campaign posters, nominated a pig for president, and paraded through the streets with an empty coffin, representing the death of American politics...