Word: coffining
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...road, fair buildings are low and airy rather than tall or massive. Where in 1939 France's imposing showcase rose like a grandstand beside the Lagoon of Nations, now stands IBM's egg, poised above a fantastic forest of steel trees. Across the pool, hovers the huge coffin-on-props of the Bell Telephone building, designed by Harrison & Abramovitz and Henry Dreyfus...
Monthly Outing. He has been dead for 40 years, lying inside a glass coffin in the squat redgranite mausoleum in Moscow's Red Square, where thousands of Soviet citizens queue up to march soberly past his waxy form, guarded by rigid Russian soldiers as immobile as the corpse. Not long ago, when Khrushchev was asked how Lenin's remains were kept looking so lifelike, he replied: "That's easy. We just take him out once a month and re-embalm him." So it is with Lenin's ideological remains. Constantly re-embalmed, retouched, re-clothed...
...white leaders of the St Augustine attempt, the Reverend William Coffin of Yale, said at a rally "caring is the greatest thing"--and only caring enough to act will make victory possible. The importance of caring was brought home to me during a sit-in at an expensive motel restaurant. As our group quietly sisted on being served, many of the white patrons gave us an impartial stare. Their blank unconcern was a major reason for our failure, and always will be. Yes, caring is the only thing...
...roll of muffled drums, 100 sailors of the Royal Hellenic Navy towed the caisson carrying the coffin of King Paul of the Hellenes through the streets of Athens. Flanking the coffin were 20 evzones in tasseled red hats, pleated kilts and pompon shoes, their weapons carried upside down in mourning. Aides carried Paul's decorations on red velvet cushions, and after the carriage came the King's riderless white horse...
...headed a funeral cortege that included five reigning monarchs and scores of princes, Presidents and Premiers. At Metropolitan Cathedral, 50 bearded Greek Orthodox bishops in white and gold robes assisted the Primate of Greece in the 50-minute ceremony. As the service ended, Frederika kissed her husband's coffin, then broke into uncontrollable sobs...