Word: coffin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...livestock warehouse where his body was forklifted off a plane in a cardboard box. No Pan Am or Government representative was present to help them. "They stripped him of his dignity," says Ahern's sister Bonnie O'Connor. "He should have come home with an American flag on his coffin...
...decision to grant Fang and his wife refuge has become the primary source of tension between the two countries. Just before Halloween the Chinese mounted a show of force around the embassy, evidently fearing that masked party guests were going to smuggle Fang out in a coffin. Diplomats had joked openly for months about pulling such a stunt. The Chinese evidently took them at their word -- monitored, no doubt, over tapped phone lines...
...came, Paris remembered what it, and the world, had lost. In 1940-42 Baker had been a spy of sorts for De Gaulle's Free French, and later in the war, she made endless appearances as a troop entertainer. At the historic Madeleine church, her flag-bedecked coffin was carried past an honor guard, as would have befitted an army veteran. The Minister of Culture and the city's mayor were among those who delivered tributes...
...solid solo album last year, which was helpful. It got him a piece of the cynosure that has always been Jagger's property. Mick turned out two solo albums himself -- the second enterprising and entertaining -- but neither enjoyed superstar success. Jagger, when interviewed, had put the Stones in a coffin, but never lowered them into the ground. When rapprochements were reached and offers tendered, he was ready to listen...
After the speeches, the coffins were reinterred in the Rakoskeresztur cemetery in the same plot from which they had been exhumed. A sixth coffin was lowered empty into the ground in symbolic memory of more than 200 other Hungarians who were executed in the terror that followed the uprising...