Word: coffined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...live. Soon he had strength enough only to conduct affairs of. state at his bedside. Last week in a Montevideo hospital long-ailing Tomás Berreta called his Cabinet for a last meeting. Two hours later he died. Through streets jam-packed with mourners, his supporters bore his coffin on their shoulders to Government House...
...GIVES CLUES TO HIS KILLERS. Said a headline over the I.N.S. story: BUGSY'S EX NO AID IN HUNT. Even the details of Bugsy's funeral became a matter of disagreement among the romancers. The New York Mirror had a picture identified as $5,000 SILVER-PLATED COFFIN FOR BUGSY. Said New York's Daily News: BUGSY'S WOOD COFFIN FOOLS 'EM AT FUNERAL. Where the truth was, no one seemed to know-or care-but a wonderful time...
...Sayed Abdul Rahman cut the orange ribbon across the tomb's doorway. Inside, a green, red and blue glass dome cast gaudy light on a glass chandelier and handsome Persian rug (the gift of Neighbor Emperor Haile Selassie). Sayed Abdul Rahman contemplated his father's inlaid sandalwood coffin, which he claimed to have found in the ruins of the old tomb last year...
Deciding where duty lay might not be easy for Abd el-Krim. The Katoomba had carried from Reunion the coffined bones of El-Krim's mother, who died in 1938. He had promised that she would one day be buried in Morocco. But when the Riff leader walked ashore, the coffin had stayed aboard. This week Katoomba and coffin were on their way to France. It seemed likely that the angry French would hold the dead mother as a hostage for the too lively...
...Ober is back in the Jayvee shell at number three, replacing Greg Coffin, who will not make the trip because of illness. He and his mates will race Rutgers and Cornell in their heat...