Word: coffining
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...legs was made of metal and fiber; it took the place of the flesh-and-blood leg his mother had given him in her womb ...In his left arm, a platinum wire took the place of the humerus . . . One hundred years after he died they opened up his coffin. All they found were strings and wires...
...Every added day is another nail in the coffin of Family Stations's claim," Misch said...
...cemetery took on a gloomy look in the late afternoon shadows, a group of 30 or 40 campesinos stood with vacant, indifferent faces around the wooden coffin. El padre, without talking to anyone, went directly up to the coffin and began reading prayers in Spanish, the words pronounced in a slow and measured tone. I stood about 10 yards away, on the lip of the freshly-dug grave, feeling as though at any moment I might just tumble in. I had to conjure up all of my will power to keep from bursting out in a wicked laugh at this...
...flag-draped coffin of General George Grivas was lowered into the ground last week in the southern Cyprus city of Limassol, a tearful crowd of 50,000 took up their old battle cry, "Enosis or death!" But enosis (union with Greece) seemed farther away than ever for Cyprus. Grivas' death at 75 of a heart attack may finally have brought to an end the reckless terrorist campaign for enosis that he had led since his secret return to the island...
Nothing works - not a hokey assignation between Brody's wife and a predatory ichthyologist, and especially not an eat-'em-up ending that lacks only Queequeg's coffin to resemble a bath tub version of Moby-Dick...