Word: coffining
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...week's end, members of a montagnard honor guard at Saigon airport paid their final farewell to their brother as his flag-draped coffin was put aboard a plane for shipment back to the U.S. and burial...
Pentagon scientists, write Burdick-Wheeler, have reduced men to automatons. An underground missile base in Colorado gives the "sensation of entering an ingenious collective coffin," populated by swarms of ''emotional neuters, technicians of a greater terror taught to ignore the unalterable end of their work...
Prisoner of the Vatican. Pius refused the pension offered him by the Italian government, and settled down to live in St. Peter's as the "Prisoner of the Vatican." He died, embittered by his political failures, in 1878. When his coffin was carried to a final resting place at San Lorenzo fuori le Mura three years later, anticlerical Romans tossed mud at the mourners, unsuccessfully tried to seize the remains and dump them in the Tiber...
...Glory of Blame. Away from her small circle, taste ran to still deeper reaches of the macabre. Newspapers approached the frontiers of necrophilia with old cheesecake photos of her, then turned sly cameras to the inside of her coffin, the shambles of her home, the sad wealth of her sleeping-pill collection. Using a hidden camera, one photographer stole a shot of her toes as she was placed in a steel drawer at the morgue. Reporters took grave delight in noting that her temporary address was Crypt 33, where a cold description of "the fabulous figure" could be read...
...swindle. The bowler-hatted Terry-Thomas and Cooper's gangling American business partner (Alex Nicol) team up,_ Mutt-and-Jeff fashion, to pursue the viruses and the villains. This includes such high jinks as Terry-Thomas' impersonating a hearse driver and tooling off madly with the coffin of a Moslem diplomat, and a terribly dignified monkey who impersonates live diplomats. The distinctly chilly climax occurs in a cable car high above the Alps...