Word: coffin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...William Sloane Coffin opened the conference--organized by the Boston/Cambridge Ministry in Higher Education--with a sermon on disarmament at St. Paul's Church Friday night...
Chief Justice Frank M. Coffin dissented from the majority opinion...
...diggers struck real honey in 1972. They found a so-called anthropoid coffin-one roughly shaped like a body-containing the bones of a man, a woman and two small children. Next summer, more coffins were unearthed, all decorated with human masks, wigged in the Egyptian manner and topped by Egyptian lotus flowers. Inside were the remains of long-faced, large-skulled people of apparently Egyptian origin. For their voyage to the nether world, they were accompanied by such Egyptian burial adornments as seals and scarabs, solid-gold teardrop earrings, beads of gold and carnelian (reddish quartz), lotus-shaped alabaster...
From the moment we wheeled the casket out of Parkland Hospital in Dallas and pushed it into the ambulance, I, who was Air Force aide to the President, never left the coffin except for a few minutes. I did so only to talk to the pilot of Air Force One, and this was at Mrs. Kennedy's request. She wanted to expedite our departure. During this time Mrs. Kennedy, along with Larry O'Brien and Dave Powers, remained at the side of the casket. To suggest that anyone could have taken the body of the President...
Upon completion of the procedures, I called Dave Powers, who advised Robert Kennedy and Mrs. Kennedy that we were prepared to leave. The ambulance, carrying the casket, Mrs. Kennedy, the Attorney General and me, returned to the White House, where the coffin was placed in the East Room...