Word: crypt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same day the body of Allende was trucked to a military airport near Santiago and put aboard a plane bound for the city of Vina del Mar, where the President's family maintained a crypt. Mrs. Allende was allowed to accompany the corpse, as were his sister Laura, two nephews and an aide...
Welcome to Andromeda is another matter. The hero (David Clennon) is one of nature's ignominious errors. He is totally paralyzed except for his fingers and his head. His bed is a movable crypt. On his 21st birthday, his mother, a vampire bat whom we never see but whose oppressive presence empties the room of breathable air, has gone off to buy him some presents. She has left him in the care of a Southern nurse (Bella Jarrett). She, it develops, is an alcoholic who once gave a patient the wrong medicine. He, it develops, wants the wrong medicine...
...Admiral Zumwalt says this is not a permissive Navy. He also publicly puts the blast on other senior admirals for not being nice enough to the malcontents. That rattling noise you just heard was John Paul Jones turning over in his crypt at the Naval Academy...
Fittingly, Richard Cardinal Cushing was buried last Saturday in a simple crypt in the chapel at St. Coletta's, "facing the children," as he had wished...
...crowd at 25 m.p.h. Nasser's widow Tahia fainted at one point. One Egyptian newscaster who was describing the proceedings passed out, and at least three others broke down and wept. Wrapped in a white sheet, Nasser's body was removed from the coffin and lowered into its crypt. The face was carefully turned toward Mecca, 800 miles away across the Red Sea. Nasser's soul, as far as devout Moslems were concerned, was already with God. He had succumbed on the anniversary of Mohammed's ascent into heaven, an auspicious occasion on which...