Word: coffining
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...manufacture of illusions in the main occupation of the characters in Tennessee Williams' Glass Menagerie, who spend their coffin-like existence waiting for the fortune that lies beyond "deceptive rainbows." In the world of the play, icy and sterile as glass, time is stagnant, and escape from the past requires an effort of will impossible for the fearful and freakish. They are a diseased family, the Wingfields, and the illusions that both protect and trap them are like the animals in the glass menagerie, all too brittle and transparent, shattering painfully at their first contact with an "emissary from...
Somewhere along the line, however, the Fighting Irish pushed across a quick seven. And we'll just lay these Eastern boys in the coffin like this...Another touchdown...And hammer it shut like...
...return as little as possible. The predominant government view has been that stalemates are to our advantage. Our great threat has been the Rogers plan-and American policy to move us back to the old [pre-1967] armistice lines. The current agreement with Egypt is another nail in the coffin of that policy...
...Jimmy Connors, 23, who has a lot of stuffing and some of the best shots in all tennis. Orantes dinked, he dunked and he tossed top-spin lobs just over the head of the hard-charging Connors. He won his final point with a soft passing shot to the coffin corner that caught Connors going the other way. Manuel fell to his knees in ecstasy, gratitude and delight-a posture that would occur to few other tennis players. With Jimmy already signed up for another lucrative 'elevised match in Las Vegas early next year, Orantes suddenly found himself looming...
...cross-country obstacles were like a glorified miniature golf course. The jumps ranged from the traditional rail sense and stone wall to the dragon's mustache. Mark Phillips came to an unhappy end when his gelding three refused to clear the obstacle appropriately named the coffin. I stationed myself next to jump number 20, the swimming pool, and waited for the merry-go-round of horses...