Word: urn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Invitation to the Souls. But for a moment last week the festival tumult subsided. Through the tent city moved a truck with a raised platform draped in India's tricolor flag. On top rode an earthenware brown urn. Within it were most of the ashes of Mohandas Gandhi. Chatter was hushed as the catafalque moved slowly past...
...great popular Hindu festivals, sternly condemned the orgiastic frenzy and the exhibitions of extreme asceticism. Now, however, Gandhi belonged not only to the ages but to the people, and India celebrated his last rites in its own un-Gandhian fashion. At water's edge, the ash-laden urn was transferred to the white (for mourning) superstructure of an army "duck." With eight other ducks, it churned noisily into the river, while army planes swooped overhead, dropping flowers on the cortege. On the shore, army guns boomed a salute of 79 salvos for Gandhi's 79 years...
Gandhi's son Ramdas poured sacred cow's milk into the urn of ashes, swirled it, then slowly poured the mixture into the water.* Gandhi's soul, according to Hindu belief, was at last free from its mortal prison. At the same moment, milkmen of nearby Allahabad, in a unique tribute, poured barrels of milk into the stream...
...days later his own most intimate friends were invited for services at our home. An urn containing his ashes stood upon the mantel, partly concealed by flowers. A string quartette played softly in another room-not by hymns but music which he himself had loved. A clergyman performed his offices in the briefest, simplest manner. Two of my father's most intimate friends spoke their own intimate words. The "funeral" was over. We passed tea and cakes. . . . Net cost - everything: $90. . . . Pagan? Who says so? HENRY E. BREDEMEIER Kenmore...
...ballots were taken out of an urn and counted by the council's oldest member. Something seemed to stick in his throat. "For Monsieur Léonard-ah-ah-13 votes. For Madame Lehut, 14 votes. Madame Lehut is elected...