Word: coffining
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Henceforth, such items as French gloves and cheeses, Italian cork and coffin handles, will be admitted to the British market without quota restrictions. Swiss hoteliers rubbed their hands at the prospect of British tourists with enough money to spend a week or more instead of a few days. "A British accent" glowed London's Daily Express, "will no longer be a passport to the worst table in the restaurant...
...Hall of Columns, hundreds of them. Soviet generals bore the Generalissimo's medals on red pillows. Next came a lone soldier on a jet black horse. Then eight more black horses pulling a gun carriage. There, framed in red for revolution and black for death, rode the coffin of Joseph Stalin, the dead man himself visible through its glass dome...
...representing Mao. Flanking them walked the rest of Moscow's hierarchy, and behind them the diplomats and the plenipotentiaries of the satellites-Czechoslovakia's Gottwald, Hungary's Rakosi, Poland's Bierut and others. The procession halted and the pallbearers, headed by Malenkov, gently moved the coffin from the carriage. Silently the new leaders of Russia climbed the 40 marble steps to the top of Lenin's tomb, where Joseph Stalin had stood innumerable times to receive the salute of the masses-where he had stood grimly that day in November of 1941 to review...
...kind of attention usually reserved for Vishinsky. Some 40 glowering pickets, Dominican exiles who have been dogging the dictator's tracks ever since he landed in Washington 12 weeks ago, paraded back & forth with signs denouncing him as an "assassin" and "murderer." They also lugged a big black coffin, which is supposed to symbolize the fate of Trujillo's opponents. The generalissimo, making his departure after the fifteen-minute opening session, probably did not even see the pickets. Twenty cops and bodyguards surrounded him as he climbed into his limousine...
Professor Modugno regained consciousness only long enough to forgive Giuseppe before he died. Huge bareheaded crowds turned out to watch while schoolboys carried the coffin through Rome's silent streets. At the professor's bier in the Piazza di Spagna, Mayor Salvatore Rebecchini spoke for all high-school teachers: "Be good, boys and girls, be good...