Word: coffining
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...just when it seemed the lid was closed on Yale's coffin, the team came alive...
Guard Jon Drezner nailed a fallaway jumper with :10 left to pull Brown to within two, 73-71. Leake nailed the coffin shut with two free throws, assuring a Harvard victory...
...last minute Tim Burke empty-net goal and fierce defensive play by the Crimson nailed the coffin shut and assured Harvard's first victory in the Beanpot in two years...
...what was most impressive was what he didn't say. Here was a man who had been wrapped like a corpse from head to foot in adhesive tape and moved from one hiding place to another in a coffin. With the others, he endured beatings and blindfolds and boredom, months spent chained to furniture, months without bathing, without real food or his professional staple, news of the world outside his grave. And yet there was no hatred, little bitterness, only that great wide smile and a promise of forgiveness that prompted the millions who watched to wonder, How would...
...would remain covered beneath the snow until the spring. A factory chief remembers a worker asking him a final favor. "I know that today or tomorrow I will die," he said. "My family are in a very poor way -- very weak . . . Will you be a friend and have a coffin made...