Word: tomb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was to be no holiday this year. Lenin would hardly have wanted his death to interfere with the war against Russia's enemies. But in their heavy winter boots the citizens of Moscow trudged across Red Square, past Lenin's tomb. Whether or not Lenin's remains were still in it, the tomb was still a symbol. Other citizens, remembering other days, smiled at a large painting of Napoleon's 1812 retreat hung in a subway station...
...speaker was finished, and the last wreath had been placed on the tomb of the newer Unknown Soldier. The bugler was sounding taps as Vag, shivering a bit from the damp which had penetrated his light reversible, left the enlarged Arlington National Cemetery. Outside it all seemed so unreal--Vag wondered if he had had a vision of the future or a nightmare of the past...
...spot he loved best was the place where he had so often shown himself, like any citizen in his rough tunic, his pants tucked into his boots, before the millions-on Lenin's tomb in the Red Square. So one of the clearest hints of Stalin's emotion and Moscow's peril last week was the closing of the tomb. Millions of Russians had made the pilgrimage to this shrine. Its closing suggested that Communism's holy relic, the remains of Lenin, had been sent away from the city...
...Beloved Moscow!" said an officer of a citizens' battalion over the radio. "We think of the Red Square, and Lenin too. Never shall we permit the dirty Fascist hordes to touch the tomb." Spokesman Solomon A. Lozovsky curtly answered a correspondent's query as to the moving...
...examination for the draft, had been taking flying lessons for three weeks. Vichy announced that the centennial of World War I Premier Georges Clemenceau's birth (Sept. 28, 1841) would be ignored. Same day the burial place chosen by Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain was announced: the tomb at Douaumont where Verdun's unknown war dead...