Word: coffining
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Egypt was plagued with foreign wars and domestic turmoil; Nile transportation had broken down, and the supply of granite blocks from the upriver country had ceased. Unjebanenjebet combed the showrooms of the local coffin makers, but found no coffin or unhewn block big enough for him. He was 6½ ft. tall...
...death stepped closer, Unjebanenjebet was at last obliged to accept a hand-me-down: a roomy, elegant coffin of pink granite which had obviously belonged to a high priest of Amun. Then death came. Embalmers laid the General's linen-wrapped mummy in the secondhand sarcophagus, put the lid on, and built the coffin into its niche in the royal tomb...
...pital de la Charité, 25 years ago this week, Paris flocked to his funeral. An endless cortege of artists and models followed the hearse to the cemetery. Along the way gendarmes, who had arrested him with painful regularity, saluted the flower-decked coffin...
...Greyhound busses ran out of Birmingham, no meat was delivered in Albany, no caskets made at the Tennessee Coffin & Casket Co. Boston, home of the cod, was low on fish because of a fishermen's dispute. The strike of 3,000 A.F. of L. machinists at Stamford's Yale & Towne Mfg. Co. was in its third month. In seven states, workers at Libby-Owens and Pittsburgh Plate Glass plants stayed away for the twelfth straight week, crippling the supply of glass to auto manufacturers not beset with strikes of their...
Waste Not, Want Not. In Rio Segundo, Argentina, Baker Felipe Gauna exhumed his wife, cremated her, converted her coffin into a bread-kneading trough...