Word: coffining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dick Nixon's waltz through Maine with Senator Margaret Chase Smith slowed a six-year grand march of the state's Democratic Party. Most unexpected blow of all was the defeat of the intellectual leader of the young Maine Democratic organization, laconic Lewiston Lawyer Frank Coffin, 41, who resigned from Congress in order to run for Governor. (In a final movement of the musical chairs, Coffin's House seat also went to a Republican...
Another tilt with the law proved more serious. Hulme was sent down from Cambridge for punching a policeman. He left town astride a coffin in an undergraduate mock funeral. Disowned by his family, he spent eight months roughing it across Canada. The vast sky and the flat horizon-reaching grasslands left him with a numbing sense of oppression, "the fright of the mind before the unknown" that he came to believe "created not only the first gods, but also the first...
...home addresses must be kept secret, Gartner said, to insure the girls' safety and prevent threatening letters from reaching them. One of the girls received a funeral wreath C.O.D. in the mail last week. Later, a man arrived at her front door in a hearse to ask for the coffin...
Maine. Middle-of-the-road Republican Incumbent John Hathaway Reed, 39, state senate president when he was sworn in as interim Governor after Democrat Clinton Clauson died in office last December, faces a well-known opponent: trim, laconic Democrat Frank Coffin, 41. Representative from Maine's Second District. Hard working Congressman Coffin is still the betting choice, but Potato Farmer John Reed has cut heavily into an early Democratic lead...
Even more touching was the situation of the poor man in In the Baggage Coach Ahead (1896), who sat in a train trying to hush his crying baby. The child's face reminded him of his late wife, making the trip in a coffin elsewhere on the train...