Word: tomb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stop. There Mackenzie King paid homage to the man who he believes is one of history's greatest. At the Pasteur Institute, where he asked photographers not to take pictures, he went down into an underground chapel, placed six red roses on the black marble tomb of Louis Pasteur. Then he knelt, his face in his hands, for three silent minutes. When he emerged his cheeks were wet with tears...
Like Britain's, France's Socialist Government is dedicated to an economy planned from womb to tomb. Last week, in a five-page decree to France's morticians, Premier Paul Ramadier and Interior Minister Edouard Depreux offered a formula fixing the price for coffin-carrying in a two-horse hearse...
...Jersey's Teterboro Air Terminal, just six miles across the Hudson River from Grant's Tomb, there was a lot of hustle-bustle last week. Lanky young pilots, many in their old Army flying jackets, darted about the coveys of DC-3 freighters and the smaller Piper Cubs, Cessnas and Beechcrafts scattered around the field. Steamrollers were snorting away, lengthening the landing strips to 4,500 feet. In a corner of the field, handlers coaxed a horse into a freight plane. Regularly, every minute or so, a plane took off or landed...
...Very clearly," I replied. "Through field glasses from about 60 feet. He is getting greyer, but his face has much more animation than I would have guessed from pictures. He never paused to catch his breath as he climbed up Lenin's tomb...
...another Russia that stood and watched, in the shape of her present masters-the Politburo, lined up atop Lenin's tomb and surrounded by an army of secret policemen. All over Russia, in less dramatic settings, you sense those same counterpoints between the people and their leaders, between the lives the people would like to lead and the lives they are made to lead. You sensed them on the very train that carried me out of Russia...