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...Rubble. The town was a welter of muddy rubble, pervaded by the stench of dead animals and burst sewer and gas mains. Despite all efforts of Allied airmen to spare the cathedral, one bomb had pierced the roof of the Gothic choir and smashed the empty tomb of Emperor Otto III (11th Century). The U.S. troops who fought toward the air-raid shelter had been trained in the streets of a bomb-riddled town in England...
...EVVA S. TOMB Toledo...
Uncle Jimbilly was Nannie's husband and Grandmother's odd-job man. He liked to carve miniature tombstones in wood, but he got angry when asked to inscribe "Safe in Heaven" over the tomb of the children's pet jackrabbit. Children goggled and thrilled when Uncle Jimbilly casually remarked that he would cut off their ears, skin them alive and nail their skins to the barn door...
...minutes past 3 on the afternoon of Saturday, August 26, General de Gaulle bent his tall, awkward body below the Arc de Triomphe and laid on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier two bunches of flame-colored gladioli. The flame at the tomb still burned. De Gaulle laid a Cross of Lorraine, fashioned of white roses, beside the gladioli, and stood at attention while a bugler sounded Aux Marts (taps...
Parcel No. 2, at Springfield, enabled Tom Dewey to pay the traditional Republican respects at the tomb of the first Republican President. But Parcel No. 3 was the main show; at St. Louis Candidate Dewey had assembled the 25 other Republican Governors of the U.S. This gave him an opportunity to remind the voters that these Republicans "govern three-fourths of the American people...