Word: coffined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Coffin & Banner. It is probable that the conspirators, who believe with Nzeogwu that "only in the army do you get true Nigerianism," intended to follow the coup with a Nasser-style revolution based on a permanent military regime. But they quickly lost their control of the army to the remaining senior officers under Army Commander Aguiyi Ironsi. A tough and respected soldier who served as commander of the United Nations forces in the Congo, "Johnny Ironsides," as Ironsi is known, had other ideas. He recalled Nzeogwu from the north, replaced him with a moderate northern officer, appointed other moderates...
...morning after his death, Premier Kosygin and President Ayub Khan shouldered Shastri's coffin and bore it to a blue-and-silver Soviet Aeroflot IL-18 airliner for the 3½-hour flight to a mourning New Delhi and reunion with Shastri's grief-stricken family. As Indian generals carried the flag-covered body into his home at 10 Janpath (People's Way), Shastri's wife Lalita threw herself on her dead husband and kissed his face. "Shastriji, you have left me alone!" she wailed...
...there and the last to leave." When the "chicks" in leather boots and dark tights, usually proud of their toughness, saw the open casket with Miles's "colors," a sleeveless jacket bearing the Hell's Angels' emblem, they sobbed. Only after the funeral oration, when the coffin was placed in the hearse, did the sound that Miles lived and died by suddenly deafen the bystanders as the cortege gunned its way to the cemetery. "We wanted to see he got a proper burial," explained one sorrowing Angel. "Mother would have wanted it this...
...That night I followed the man, not the coffin," Bundy recalls. "We had not much doubt about what J.F.K. would have wanted us to do. He never had the notion that because you loved the man at the center of the work he had to be the center of your being. The transition was easier for me. I hadn't given a year of my life campaigning for him." Bundy regarded his role as simply an "institutional assignment," and continued to fill it as energetically for Johnson as he had for Kennedy...
...desperation of hung-up types waiting to score. There is powerful understatement in an eerily casual police raid on a pad full of bleary, turned-on junkies, or in Sánchez' dry heaves when he goes to collect a shipment of "stuff" and finds it sharing a coffin with a stiff. Heroína is not much fun to sit through, but the best of it throws a cold clear light into one of Manhattan's open wounds...