Word: processional
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Saigon, South Vietnam June 21, 1963 The automobile at the head of the procession of saffron-robed Buddhist monks [protesting their oppression] in Saigon suddenly choked to a stop at an intersection. The occupants of the car lifted its hood as chanting priests began forming a circle seven or eight...
Iraqis weren't waiting. Most seem just to want their country back, from the insurgents and from the Americans. In the Shi'ite holy city of Najaf, locals drove around as if the entire town were taking part in a wedding procession, putting flowers on their cars and thrusting guns...
Back in his home town, Zarqa, in Jordan, a 12-foot banner was erected Thursday outside the home of Zarqawi?s brother, Sayel "Abu Omar" al-Khalayilaht. In blue letters on white, it proclaimed "the wedding of the hero martyr Abu Mousab al Zarqawi," a reference to the belief among...
University President Lawrence H. Summers told members of the Class of 2006 at yesterday’s Baccalaureate Service that he, too, will be graduating tomorrow. “I count myself as one of you,” he began, prompting loud laughter and applause from the seniors, who...
Nor, in a similar way, was Princess Diana alone during her final public appearance. She was joined by more than a million people in central London who lined the route of her funeral procession; by the 2,000 mourners inside Westminster Abbey who had been invited to attend her funeral...