Word: coffining
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...plough into some local citizen or other minor obstacle which chanced to be in its way. It was also quite clear that full grown moose would suffer little or no damage from such a collision, but that the other party more than likely would be jolted right into his coffin...
After the crash, Albert Guay, a jeweler and onetime munitions worker, had urged investigators to "get to the bottom of this." He bought a great cross of flowers to be placed on Rita's coffin. To a priest he said: "If God wanted it, I accept...
...Coffin Tacks...
YOUR INTERESTING ARTICLE ABOUT PUBLISHER GORDON GRAY [TIME, SEPT. 12] CONTAINS AN ERROR WHICH I REGRET. WHEN THE TWIN CITY SENTINEL CALLED CIGARETTES "COFFIN TACKS," I OBJECTED TO WHAT SEEMED TO ME TO BE A POOR CHOICE OF A HEADLINE, BUT AT NO TIME DID I SUGGEST THAT THE MANAGING EDITOR BE FIRED...
Gray has insisted on widening discussion beyond his own views. Once a headline in one of the Gray papers called cigarettes "coffin tacks." That angered Publisher Gray's Uncle James, who is chairman of the board of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels) and second largest stockholder in the newspapers. Uncle James demanded that the managing editor be fired, but Publisher Gray refused. Last month, in a bitter dispute between a doctor and nurses at the county hospital, the county commissioners-led by a director of the Gray newspapers-sided with the doctor; the editors, again with Gray...