Word: coffined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strange funeral procession wended its way, picking up bystanders, small boys and stray dogs as an avalanche gathers sticks and stones. At the head of the column, Arab women wailed and rent their garments, their faces plastered with clay in sign of mourning. Behind came the pallbearers, carrying a coffin that contained the body of Kassem Shakhnoub. That morning, at a cement plant where Shakhnoub worked, police had broken up a strike called by the Communist-led union. In the midst of the confusion, Shakhnoub had keeled over. Co-workers gathered around his body, shouting that he had been shot...
Democrats, whose prime vote getter is U.S. Senator Edmund S. Muskie, a Catholic, exploited the issue for a while; e.g., Congressman Frank Coffin, a Baptist, upheld the defeated local-option school bus bill the day after announcing for Governor. But the harsh weapon of the boycott raised a cry of "intolerance" in the Bangor News and among Protestants, who make up 74.9% of Maine's population. Key Democrats decided that they must water down their school-bus proposal before their state convention opens April 22-featuring an invocation by a rabbi, prayer by a priest, benediction by a Congregational...
...signer of the Declaration of Independence, Dr. Benjamin Rush, attacked tobacco on grounds of health ?one of a host of doctors who through the years have attributed to the plant 300 diseases ranging from impotence to bad eyesight. Long before cancer became a cry, cigarettes were known as "coffin nails." Henry Ford and Thomas Edison vowed that they would not knowingly hire anyone who smoked. In 1918 Evangelist Billy Sunday cried triumphantly: "Prohibition is won; now for tobacco!" In earlier days, the feeling against smoking by women was so strong that when Carmen came to Kansas before World...
...would commit himself to those of a trusted bartender. He is entirely confident of the craftsman's skill and gratefully aware that such competence is increasingly rare. The latest Ambler amble (his first in four years) is less umbrous than such cloak-and-Luger exercises as A Coffin for Dimitrios and The Schirmer Inheritance, but it should be no disappointment...
...bitterness and the wish to judge. As a gesture against political bullies back home, Marie Louise once carried a bamboo blowpipe to puff pepper into the eyes of German police; pity had made her, too, willing to blind someone. Symbolically, Regler buried the pepper gun with her in her coffin...