Word: coffining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Carefully assembled to exclude Ramblers, a cavalcade of cars rolled past the plant of American Motors Corp. in Kenosha, Wis., horns blaring to attract attention. From a truck at the head of the cavalcade, a group of men lifted a flower-topped coffin bedecked with signs that accused American Motors of attempting to "bury our union," bore it around the plant like pallbearers. The demonstration was organized and manned by members of United Auto Workers Local 72, who last week, to protest the firing of a union steward, struck American Motors at a crucial moment in its history and thus...
...come-as-you-are books." Cartoonist Al Capp chuckles himself to sleep by dipping into Martin Chuzzlewit or Little Dorrit. A sophisticated young matron on New York's Fire Island unabashedly begins her vacation with Frank Yerby's Pride's Castle and Ambler's A Coffin for Dimitrios. Another confirmed repeater is Author Barzini, who claims that "you can always open Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and find some wonderful sequence about a Byzantine emperor gouging his son's eyes out." A psychiatrist might sneer that the compulsive repeater needs a familiar book...
...celibate, Gibran nevertheless exerted a strong spiritual influence on women. A Manhattan jeweler's wife with whom he corresponded directed that his letters should be buried with her in her coffin. Barbara Young, a poet, swore allegiance to the master after hearing The Prophet read in a Greenwich Village church (he was also present as a listener). She served Gibran as secretary until his death from cancer...
...have told my wife to buy me a coffin.' But as soon as I fall, another member of the team will replace me." See THE WORLD, Toward a Sterner Life...
...give him a chance. U.S. officials cautioned privately that Ky was too young and impulsive to endure for long in the volatile world of Saigon politics. Ky himself was aware of the dangers that plague anyone in that sphere. "I have told my wife to buy me a coffin," he remarked to reporters. "But as soon as I fall, another member of the team will replace me. There is no question of the government's falling apart as in the past...