Word: embalm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...though, was the decision to intervene in Korea. Had the Communist challenge not been faced, had Korea suffered as Manchuria did almost two decades before, the ideal of collective security would surely have died. Investing the Security Council's power in the UN Assembly, where the veto cannot embalm action, allowed the United States to seek and receive the moral support for the Korean venture which only an international assembly can confer. These measures clearly mark the change in attitude from pre-war shilly-shally to today's resolve...
Pickets in Ascot Ties. Pierce Brothers claimed to be the first in the U.S. to advertise low-price funerals, first to send motorcycle escorts with the casket coach (nobody any longer calls them hearses in the profession) and first (outside New York itself) to embalm 6,000 remains in a year. In 50 peppy years of growth, it has dedicated a main mortuary with 20 "reposing rooms" (all named for famous authors) and 13 cheerful branch plants to the uplifting or happy funeral. But last week, gloom, finally came to Pierce Brothers, and moved to Forest Lawn...