Word: coffined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Coffin Nail? The majority's plan had many points of agreement with one proposed by bridge& -peace expert Ely Culbertson...
...hours prison doctors labored over the prostrate Auvergnat with emetics and stomach pumps. They postponed his death, but they could not make him stand up. The firing squad waited. At length two men escorted him to the stake. A hearse stood by, a coffin rested on the ground...
...come forth," and Lazarus came forth with no account of anything unusual having occurred. . . . How about his soul? Lazarus was the soul himself. When Lazarus was dead his soul was also dead ("asleep" the Bible calls it). Also the young man whose funeral Jesus broke up. He stopped the coffin and said, "Young man, I say unto thee arise." The young man arose and his sleeping soul arose with...
Down Mexico City's broad Paseo de la Reforma swept a noisy mob: partisans of Presidential Candidate Miguel Aleman. On their shoulders they bore a black coffin emblazoned in big white letters with the name of former Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla, new and rival entry in the Mexican Presidential campaign. Before Alemán's mansion headquarters the paraders stopped, lowered the coffin. Then they set it on fire. With elections still ten months away, the shouting had already begun. Said cynical observers of Mexico's politics: the shooting may be expected momentarily...
About 30 minutes short of the end, an improvised coffin is borne solemnly to rest in a resonant stone vault. Its occupant has died before your eyes, but you can't be too sure, for she was subject to cataleptic trances. After the pallbearers have gone, the camera coldly, tenderly approaches the coffin in a silence so intense as to be almost unbearable. When the shriek of the prematurely buried woman finally comes, it releases the rest of the show into a free-for-all masterpiece of increasing terror...