Word: grave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the eulogies were finished, Andrei Zhdanov was lowered into a grave beside the Kremlin's wall and behind Lenin's mausoleum. It was a hole about equal in size to the living space Russian housing provides for the average Russian...
...they did overcome Russian obstructionism and revive Western Germany, then the Communists could go to the Germans with the grave charge that the West was guilty of splitting Germany...
...expressed wish of William Butler Yeats will be fulfilled, now that the war is over. His body, buried these nine years in the south of France where he died, will be taken home (in an Eire destroyer) and reburied in a grave in Drumcliffe Cemetery, County Sligo...
...lunch of fried chicken, corn on the cob and a huge birthday cake, while spectators gawked from beyond the low fence. He visited the old Quaker cemetery, where some dozen Hoovers are buried under the red cedars, and for a long moment stood with his head bowed before the grave of his father and mother. On a platform looking out over sun-splashed fields of the finest corn in lowans' memory, Hoover spoke. He recalled leaving West Branch at the age of ten to live on his uncle's farm (his father died when...
...sure to meet one's friends in Bath. But now one hardly knows anyone." Echoed a Bath specialist: "In a few years Bath will become so crowded and impossible that any person of quality will naturally go abroad for treatment." Was Beau Nash turning in his grave? Probably not; he used to pass his six-quart beaver among the swells to collect money for a mineral-water hospital available to all comers...