Word: coffin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...slowly off the grounds of the Imperial Palace and onto the streets of Tokyo. Thousands of Japanese watched its silent passage, some bowing, some weeping. At Shinjuku Gyoen, an imperial garden, the black-painted palanquin was hoisted by 51 members of the Imperial Guard. Above, silk curtains draped the coffin made of Japanese cypress. Within rested the body of Hirohito, the reluctant monarch who on Jan. 7, at 87, succumbed to cancer after occupying the Japanese throne for 62 years...
Somber drums banged, and flutes trilled a song of sadness. Shinto priests, accompanied by veiled artifacts too sacred to be seen, marched in solemn cadence. As 10,000 invited guests looked on, Emperor Akihito bowed. Facing the coffin of the man who was once revered by his people as a living divinity, Akihito intoned, "Filled with profound grief, we bid you farewell...
...soaked body may be difficult to change. Chamberlain has a friend, now 29, who has been taking steroids for more than a dozen years. Says Chamberlain: "His mind is so warped that he said he doesn't care if he dies, so long as he looks big in the coffin...
Riverside's elaborate hunt for William Sloane Coffin's successor typifies the method by which most of America's 300,000 Protestant congregations, large and small, find spiritual leaders. Lay members serving on a search committee may spend a year in unpaid toil, scanning l00 dossiers, listening to sermon tapes and making covert scouting expeditions to hear preachers. At Riverside, 5,000 people were asked to submit names and 250 prospects were contacted...
...activist that Brewster was most known. He opened Yale facilities to 12,000 student protesters from other colleges in 1970. He also successfully fought attempts to fire Vietnam War protester and draft evaders' champion William Sloane Coffin Jr., the Yale chaplain...