Word: processional
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Bobbing and dipping above the heads of the crowd of 50,000, the plain wooden coffin was borne through the narrow streets of Nablus, the largest town in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. At the front of the funeral procession, among mourners with drums and cymbals, fluttered the black, white...
Al Masri, who was appointed mayor only last November by the Israelis, was shot on the morning of March 2 outside the Nablus municipal building. Though he was a Palestinian moderate with close ties to Jordan, his funeral turned into the largest show of public support for the outlawed P.L.O...
As the counting proceeded in the cool confines of the Assembly building, each vote recorded for Marcos added anger and outrage to the tension building across the far-flung archipelago. Tentatively but with increasing signs of determination, Aquino supporters were starting to take their frustrations into the streets. Wav- ing...
The procession of their podium guests was not only headed by the President of the U.S., who has addressed the assembly for each of his five years in the White House. It was also graced by Vice President George Bush, Congressman Jack Kemp, former U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick--and just...
The dignified 30-minute ceremony ended with a display of an aerial equivalent of the riderless horse procession, which was impressed indelibly on a mourning nation at the funeral of John Kennedy 22 years ago. Four T-38 jets--the trainers in which all astronauts prepare for their dangerous duties...