Word: coffining
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That night the men of the Gouws family fashioned a rough coffin, and Mistress Katrina van Schalkwyk supplied a winding sheet. Joseph's body was delivered to his grandmother with strict instructions: "You must bury him without opening the coffin, because he died of a contagious disease." But Joseph's father, Abraham, raised the coffin...
Senator Joseph Raymond McCarthy grinned his acknowledgement to a spattering of applause, shouldered through the crowd and walked into the glare of television's spotlights. Near the end of a long, coffin-shaped table he found his place, marked by a white name card. He studiedly ignored Army Secretary Robert Ten Broeck Stevens, seated only a few feet away, supported in depth by star-studded Army officers. Between McCarthy and Stevens lay an unseen mountain of bitterness rising from the drafting into the Army of G. David Schine. the golden boy who became an unpaid consultant to McCarthy...
...Dusen turned for advice to the greatest Presbyterian preacher and pastor of his time, Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin. Coffin advised him to do what he himself had done: study for a year at Edinburgh, then return for the rest of his training at Union Theological Seminary in Manhattan. Van Dusen agreed, and thereupon began walking in Dr. Coffin's footsteps...
...when Dr. Coffin became president of Union, he asked his energetic young friend to join the faculty as instructor in philosophy of religion and systematic theology. Van Dusen turned down a teaching job at Princeton to accept. He has been at Union ever since, becoming dean of students in 1931 and president on Dr. Coffin's retirement...
Curtin's reaction was drastic. Last month he posted a sign overlooking King David Memorial Garden, which said: "Investigation has disclosed underground streams with considerable flow just below the surface of this entire area. If you insist on being buried [here] please use a coffin of a type that will retard contamination of our well." A fortnight ago, five 25-ft. gallows, equipped with hangman's nooses, appeared on the Curtin property, looming lugubriously over the cemetery. Soon, Curtin promised, he would add realistic dummies...