Word: coffining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...landing a Soviet astronaut on the moon: "It is not a question of mooning him but of demooning him. Our national emblem is already on the moon, but we don't want to place a coffin beside...
...high crematory tower. A 300-ft.-long red paper dragon was coiled around the tower's base as if in readiness to bear the rajah's soul to heaven. Priests chanted and tinkled ceremonial bells. Finally, the rajah's body was put in a coffin fashioned in the shape of a bull, and the red paper dragon was placed on top. Then the priests lit the crematory fires...
Terrible-eyed, a father rose up from his coffin one night last week, rushed after his beautiful young daughter and with bloodthirsty screams attempted to sink his fangs into her throat. Poor stiff. Some other vampire, succubus, lamia, boggart, barghest, uturuncu or related fee-faw-fum had already drunk the poor girl dry. The U.S., as summer moviegoers may have observed, is crawling with the bloody things. The horror industry is in the hideous throes of what may be the biggest necromantic revival since Count Dracula was a nipper...
...Blood's Coffin (Caralan; UA), another nasty trifle from Britain, is a skillful piece of suspense writing that might be described as a woman's horror picture-it's about a man who wants a woman's heart. When he can't get it, he takes somebody else's and transplants it into a corpse that-heh, heh-has some nasty ideas...
...small, quiet funeral took place four days later in the placid village cemetery of Ketchum. To the north, the peaks of the rugged Sawtooth Mountains were still capped with snow. To the east lay the lavish summer greenery of the Wood River Valley. Around the rose-covered coffin gathered only about 50 people, mostly Idaho neighbors and some of Hemingway's always-varied circle of friends-a doctor, a rancher, a hotel man, a onetime operator of a gymnasium. "O Lord," prayed Father Robert Waldmann, pastor of Our Lady of the Snows Catholic Church, "grant to thy servant Ernest...