Word: graving
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...mountain road in Idaho, where they had been fighting a forest fire. Just as the Jemez community (pop. 2,800) always turned out to send its Eagles off to do battle against fire, it gathered again for the fire fighters' funeral. The four Indians were buried in a common grave, their bodies wrapped, according to custom, only in blankets...
...life, save the rescue crews. Of the hamlet's almost 1,200 residents, only four, including a woman and her child, are believed to have survived. Five miles away in Su- Bum, army troops found a scrawny chicken dancing a macabre two-step atop a freshly dug family grave. "All the people, the goats, the pigs and the cows died," said Lieut. General Tataw. "What surprises me is how that chicken survived...
...have been allowed near anything that could hurt him. That guy would have said, 'No. You've been drafted by the Boston Celtics. You've got a future. You can't have any coke.' Today that same guy took Bias by the hand and led him to his grave...
...second relates to the very grave and difficult period that occurred in Hungary in 1956. It was a situation in which I felt I had to take a strong stand, to assume an important position. There were others who could have done the job, but it fell to me. I did not seek...
Despite the continuing marvel of viewing the Titanic, the scientists never forgot they were touring what is, in effect, a mass grave. "You look at parts of the ship and you get flashbacks -- that Captain (Edward) Smith stood here and (Multimillionaire John Jacob) Astor was there, and that's where they were loading the women and children," Ballard told the Boston Herald. "You remember the staircase scene with people going up and down, and you remember the band playing...