Word: tomb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there with his hands and legs tied behind his back. They peered into a cavern on Rome's outskirts, where the Nazis had piled like cordwood some 500 Italians massacred last March in reprisal for the grenade-killing of 32 German soldiers; now weeping Romans stood at the tomb's mouth, searching for relatives among the cadavers...
...Allah, The Good Earth, has married two wealthy Britons: 1) Socialite Edward F. W. James (brother of the second Mrs. Marshall Field), whom Dancer Losch married in 1930 (he divorced her in 1934); 2) the Earl of Carnarvon, son of one of the discoverers of Tutankhamen's Tomb, now a British Army Major. She began painting five years ago after being encouraged by Prime Minister Churchill's portrait-painting nephew John. Cried the Countess last week: "I am only going to paint forever. From...
...privileges at Bethpage State Park. Excerpt: "Experience has shown that most of the servicemen who play golf are officers, who can afford a reasonable fee, and that the average . . . doughboy regards golf as a sport of toffs* and gentlemen and doesn't know a divot from an Attic tomb inscription...
...bright kerchief; and as she walked out of the empty, lighted lobby, the operator noticed she wore a tan polo coat, dark slacks, and sport shoes. She had no bag. The street lights along Riverside Drive made pale yellow pools on the drifted snow, but beyond, Grant's Tomb and the park sloping down to the Hudson River were lost in gloom. That was the morning of March...
...preserve the frail little man's mortal remains for posterity. A black and red marble pyramid was erected on Moscow's Red Square. Inside the embalmed body was laid out, under glass, in a quiet vault where the people could file silently by. War closed the tomb's door, but last week Moscow scientists made their annual report: "Excellent color in the skin, firmness and elasticity of connective tissues, flexibility of the joints and elasticity of the muscles, along with excellent preservation of the features of the face. It looks like Lenin sleeping...