Word: coffined
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...clear about the commercials. There is nothing graphic. No bodies. No blood. No names. This is not the Passion of 9/11, just iconographic images that we all remember, including the solemn bearing of a coffin and views of the devastation...
After an epic battle—which included fireworks that sent Crimson’s co-captain Angela Ruggiero into the locker room early and saw No. 1 Harvard fight back to tie the game after being down two goals—Apps put the nail in the coffin, beating Boe off a faceoff in Harvard’s zone and giving No. 3 Dartmouth a 3-2 victory in the closing minutes at Thompson Arena in Hanover...
...They’ve lost four of their last five games. If we can beat them, we could be the final nail in their coffin as they make a bid for the Frozen Four,” Ruggiero said. “It would be nice to walk away with a decisive victory against them...
...white coffin of Kaptan Boonmanuj, 6, is installed in the front room of his family's farmhouse in western Thailand. A framed photo shows Kaptan in his school uniform; nearby, someone has parked his little bicycle. Kaptan fell ill a few days after the New Year with a mysterious fever that developed into lung complications. "Mum," he told his mother, "my chest feels like it is going to explode." When he died last week, Kaptan became Thailand's first confirmed victim of avian influenza, the latest scourge to emerge from Asia. Inside the Boonmanuj household, relatives burn incense and quietly...
Last year put a few more nails in the coffin of long-term hormone-replacement therapy. Further examination of the data from the Women's Health Initiative, a study that involved more than 16,000 women, showed that the combination of estrogen and progestin not only raised a postmenopausal woman's risk of heart disease and breast cancer but also increased her risk of stroke and doubled her chances of developing dementia if she was 65 or older. The grim research results, on top of those released in 2002, have translated into plummeting prescriptions for Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, manufacturer of Prempro...