Word: coffining
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...went in the cold Roman dusk to take his place among the Popes buried in the crypt of St. Peter's, to lie between his two namesakes, John XXIII and Paul VI. As the plain cypress coffin was borne through the portals of the great basilica, the huge, tearful crowd standing in the rainswept square burst into applause. At the Requiem Mass that preceded the burial, it rained intermittently. As if to counteract the rain clouds, in his funeral address 85-year-old Carlo Cardinal Confalonieri compared Pope John Paul to "a meteor that unexpectedly lights up the heavens...
...They kept to an open-air Mass in St. Peter's Square, despite the virtual certainty of rain, so as not to disappoint the more than 50,000 people who, rain or shine, desired to attend. At one point during the Requiem, a downpour drenched the solitary coffin, and aides rushed up with umbrellas to shield the 90 white-mitered Cardinals...
MacMurray has no grand illusions about his answer to the punting question. He knows he is not a cannon-legged messiah here to save the Crimson charges and nail the coffin corner shut on grid-iron foes. He simply believes he can kick a football and little by little he has been erasing the question mark that shrouded the Harvard punting game in the preseason forecasts...
After a Nettles single, Lasorda brought in flamethrower Terry Forster to finish the cremation. He allowed a Texas Leaguer to Chris Chambliss, but then struck out three of the final four batters he faced to nail down the coffin...
Senior Gary Bosnic can do the job as placekicker and kickoff man, but punting is another story. Joe Restic does not have a punter, and more than half a dozen pretenders to the role have been snapping their knees off at practice. We could be talking coffin-corner kicks from deep in our own territory, and that's downright frightening...