Word: pyre
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...platform of brick and cement, three feet high and twelve feet square. At the four corners were stumps of the sacred peepul tree. On the platform was half a ton of sandalwood, mixed with ghi (melted butter), incense, coconuts and camphor. Gandhi's body was raised to the pyre...
...April 27-28, "Hitler called his court around him, and in this macabre conclave all rehearsed their plans for suicide." Only SS General Fegelein, Eva Braun's brother-in-law, declined: "He had not secured his adoption into the family in order to burn on the family pyre." He escaped from the bunker but was captured and shot. Early in the morning of April 30, Hitler married Eva Braun. (She supplied, says the author, "that ideal of restfulness . . . for which his bourgeois soul so hankered.") That day in the Chancellery canteen, where the soldiers and orderlies took their meals...
Soon after midnight, as the lamps burned low, the wailing abbot and priest were blinded with quicklime and bound hand & foot. They were stretched on a pyre of straw, twigs and wood outside the temple doors, saturated with gasoline, and set on fire. Long black shadows danced against the surrounding trees, and a strange perfume infused the darkness above the crackling bonfire...
...witches', the staff of the M.I.T. Voo Doo had some good, clean fun last week with Harvard's Lampoon. Anybody who bought the magazine, they decided, was surely bewitched. So they tried the Lampoon (in absentia?) for witchcraft, hanged it in effigy, burned it atop a pyre of barrels and went home feeling as triumphant as the M.I.T. men of an earlier generation who soldered up Harvard's gates and painted John Harvard's statue a bright...
...mourners scurried away when the storm broke, but a party of naked mendicants had heard him groan and rescued him. Next morning the brother-in-law had rustled up another body to put on the pyre and finish the funeral. Shocked into amnesia, Roy had traveled and lived with the beggars for twelve years while his memory gradually returned. That was his story: now he was home...