Word: coffined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After steady Leverett pressure from the opening kickoff, the Deacons took over in the shadow of their goalposts when bunny Juan Mayer's fine punt bounced out of bounds in the coffin corner...
Another nail in the Coffin" was the summation of C. Crane Brinton '19, McLean Professor of History, commenting on yesterday's action of the History Department in waiving the Latin requirement for its graduate candidates for the Doctoral Degree...
This was the last major Jayvee offensive effort of the afternoon, as Wentworth twice marched into Harvard territory only to lose the ball on interceptions. A good coffin corner kick by Giby Warren late in the final period set up the safety, the Jayvees' fourth in three games. There was a bad pass from center to the Wentworth punter in the end zone, and center Bob Grady dropped the kicker for the final two-pointer...
While the rest of Venezuela battened on oil, the cattlemen struggled with the legacy of civil wars, a virulent malaria known as la fiebre económica (Venezuelans quip that if it hits in the morning, your only expense is a coffin at night) and the 27-year exploitation of Dictator-President Juan Vicente Gómez. Their worst headache: the senseless three-to-four-week trek to Gómez's slaughterhouse near the coast (over 20% of the cattle's weight was lost...
...leading role in a movie. She played it like the great actress she had always pined to be-and then collapsed. "Bill," she gasped, "have the bells [of my home town] rung for pop-and me. . . . [And] some little girls with white paper wings ... to stand by my coffin." Then she passed away-to the heavenly studio of "the Great Producer...