Word: coffined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wife requested snake handling at the funeral. Almost 3,000 people came to watch. The brethren played guitars, cymbals and tambourines and when they got to shouting good, the snake handling began. The Rev. Raymond Hayes of Grasshopper put the serpent that had bitten Brother Ford into the coffin. It coiled up quietly on Brother Ford's chest. In the excitement Brother Hayes was bitten by a rattler, but he paid it no heed and felt all right afterward...
...freshly dug grave, enlisted men lifted the plain grey coffin from the ambulance and laid it against a bank of flowers on green camouflage wire. High-ranking officers, led by Marine Lieut. General Roy S. Geiger, stood at attention while the brief service was read. The melancholy notes of taps floated over nearby Hagushi Beach, where General Buckner's men had swarmed ashore on Easter morning. Then his body was lowered into the ground, to rest in honor with the other thousands who had died to win Okinawa...
...skulls in the uninviting Fleagle living room, and snags his hand in the twanging spring of a devastated sofa, Mamie Fleagle Johnson (Marjorie Main) assassinates flies with a bull whip, and her third husband, a mad scientist (Porter Hall), suggests that perhaps he'd better knock together another coffin...
During the war the Nazis transferred coffin and contents to Siegen, in Westphalia. Last week a U.S. Army truck brought them back. Said the soldier driver reporting to the Allied officer in charge: "I've got the bones with me. Where...
...body lie for two days on the floor where he had fallen. Medical authorities removed the brain, took plaster casts of the skull. Finally, a British Army detail, sworn to secrecy, buried the unembalmed body in a grave on the heath near Lüneburg. There was no coffin, no marking on the grave. The shifting sand would soon obliterate the last sign; there would be no site for a martyr's monument...