Word: tomb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dream come true. The mere thought of that 1,850-mile rail line for 15 years kept the British lion sleepless and roaring. To prove his friendship for Sultan Abdul Hamid's Turkey, owner of the roadbed, Wilhelm II visited Damascus in 1898, dropped a wreath on the tomb of Saladin (Saracen Napoleon during the Crusades), expansively designated himself friend of the world's then 300,000,000 Moslems, half of whom were living under the Union Jack. Führer Hitler's Stooge Mussolini did the same thing...
...rumpled, bulky, droop-mustached man stood beside the white dazzle of the Unknown Soldier's marble tomb in Arlington Cemetery. He too had been a soldier-Sergeant Alvin C. York, the Tennessee mountaineer who, 23 years ago, singlehanded, disabled a German machine-gun battery and with seven privates killed or captured 152 of its defenders. He spoke: "Liberty is not merely something the veterans inherited. Liberty is something they fought to keep...
...central part of the Abbey directly over the crossing of the nave and transept, burned out. Tons of debris fell on the spot where King George VI and Queen Elizabeth-and many monarchs before them-were crowned. The Henry VII Chapel was damaged, but the Unknown Warrior in his tomb and the poets in their Corner were not disturbed...
...awesome Red Square. There this year, braving an annoying soap shortage, Russia staged its annual May Day revels, a display of rumbling tanks, massed troops, zooming warplanes, in praise of its successful "struggle for peace." Among the bigwigs who surrounded Man-of-Peace Stalin atop Lenin's tomb were new faces, the representatives of Bessarabia and Bukovina. Slogan of the day was "Strengthen the Red Army and Intelligence Service...
Issuing from their isolated Mt. Auburn Street tomb late last night, a dozen gentleman witsters invaded Shepard Hall, home of the Crimson Radio Network, and broadcast their own version of "a Hitler invasion of the Dean's Office...