Word: mausoleum
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...Communist poet's home in Santiago for the funeral procession to the capital's General Cemetery. In bold defiance of the junta's anti-Marxist campaign and in obvious disregard for their own liberty, they chanted leftist slogans as the cortege marched slowly to the mausoleum. Softly at first, then louder and louder, they sang the Internationale...
...history, the saga of Robert Peary was fissured from the beginning. Peary was never reticent about his hunger for glory. Like Douglas MacArthur, he wrote ringing letters about ambition to his mother. Resting in his igloo after the last polar trip, he contemplated elaborate designs for his mausoleum. But according to Matt Henson's recollections, Peary was sullen and evasive about their exact positions at the top of the world. He asserted his claim to the Pole only after returning to civilization and learning that the world was already crediting the achievement to Frederick A. Cook, a Brooklyn physician...
President Bok has stated, "What I really want to do is give the Yard the aura of a great grassy mall." What the architect has contrived is an appalling combination of a suburban shopping plaza, every golfer's nightmare of an eighteenth hole, and a mausoleum (perhaps designed for the 60 most active members of the GSTFU). When one consider the utopian promises of Stubbins and Associates, Disney World pales by comparison...
...widow; her daughter by her first marriage, Catherine Hutin; and Paulo, 52, Picasso's son by his first marriage to the Russian dancer Olga Koklova. After the 1 10-mile journey, the mahogany casket, without ceremony, was placed in the chateau chapel to await the building of a mausoleum...
...emulate France's Charles de Gaulle and retire, its presses were silenced by government decree for six months and the paper eventually went out of business. Nonetheless Franco has already prepared for his eventual death, and reserved a tomb in the "Valley of the Fallen," the grandiose memorial mausoleum carved by Republican prisoners of war in and around a granite mountain 30 miles from Madrid to hold Civil War dead...