Word: coffining
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...seen from a helicopter. While anchors and talking heads prayerfully whispered the word “Bronco” as if it might, repeated sufficiently often, summon the ghost of O.J. to inspire Michael to make a break for it, we saw the final nail driven into the coffin of a treasured 21st century orthodoxy: the belief that somehow, after Sept. 11, our media culture had fundamentally changed...
...nail in the coffin came with less than half a minute remaining, as Mike Patton sent the puck across the ice and into an empty Harvard net, silencing the Crimson crowd...
When quarterback Jeff Otis found wide receiver Zach Van Zant in the endzone just 55 seconds later to put Columbia up 16-13, Schires abandonment of his conservative style and poise in pressure situations began to close the lid of the coffin on Harvard’s season and chances of an Ivy title...
After the scare, though, Hoff put the final nail in the coffin. Though he was turned away in the 37th minute on a breakaway in front of the goal—prompting him to throw up his hands in disgust—Hoff persevered and finally got the clinching score with just over a minute to play in the first half...
Empress Dou's coffin is surrounded by a wooden structure called huangchang ticou, a burial method reserved for Han dynasty emperors and their wives and concubines...