Word: coffin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Building his reputation as an escape artist, he wiggled out of ropes and straitjackets, as well as handcuffs, sometimes while in a coffin submerged in water. At 27 he was invited to appear on a CBS television show, It's Magic. "They hauled me 110 ft. above Broadway with a crane, hanging me upside down at the end of a cable in a straitjacket -- and I escaped from the jacket. It got me on the front page of the Herald Tribune." It also launched his television career, which has included 32 appearances on the Tonight show alone. Randi's formula...
Three weeks after Josefa Edralin Marcos died at age 95, her body is still under glass in a bronze coffin at a funeral home in a well-to-do Manila suburb. White lilies sent by her absent son from exile in Hawaii are fading. Blocking her burial is a contest of wills between President Corazon Aquino and supporters of the deposed Ferdinand Marcos...
...another point Kauffmann and Fontaine were tied together and placed in a coffin. When they were let out for a moment, Fontaine peered under his blindfold and saw that they were near a cement factory. "They're going to kill us here, put our bodies in cement and dump us in the sea," said Fontaine. Later Kauffmann and Fontaine were put in a new cell and chained like animals to a spike in the floor...
MAINE [75]: Debbie Duff 7-4--20; Rachel Bouchard 2-4--8; Elizabeth Coffin 4-7--15; Victoria Watras 5-4--14; Jen Smart 5-0--10; Crystal Cummings 0-0--0; Cathy Iaconeta 1-0--2; Diane Nagle 1-0--2; Kelly Novbert...
Three-pointers: Duff, Keffer , Duncan. Fouled out: None. Total fouls: Harvard 18; Maine 22. Assists: Harvard 15 (Keffer 8); Maine 19 (Watras 5). Turnovers: Harvard 18; Maine 20. Rebounds: Harvard 47 (Chandler 10); Maine 47 (Coffin...