Word: urn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...group of scantily clad models with placards announcing, "I Love Marty." Reporters, newsreel cameramen and photographers were on hand, and two representatives of the Santa Monica Bay District Meatcutters Union, Local 587 (the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workmen of North America, A.F.L.-C.I.O.), presented Borgnine with a gold urn trophy. His portrayal of Marty, its inscription said, "reveals the meatcutters of America as friendly, humble, sincere and accredited members of the human race...
...based closely on the 1951 Broadway play, is provided by a transplanted Sicilian woman, Serafina Delle Rose. After the death of her smuggler husband, she locks herself up in her Gulf Coast shack and spends three years worshipping his memory and his ashes, which she keeps in an urn in the living room. But three years is a long wait for a woman of Sicilian temperament, and the end of her seclusion is in sight when she finds out that her lamented spouse had been keeping other company. So when a bachelor with the body of her husband...
...earthenware urn, filled with ashes symbolizing the cremated body of English cricket...
Rene Cogny laid wreaths on monuments marked A Nos Marts in the military cemetery and told his troops that it was not they who had lost the war against the Communists, but the politicians at Geneva. Alone, a Vietnamese Nationalist official shoveled North Vietnamese dirt into an urn, wrapped it with a Nationalist-flag, and made off with it to the south...
...model, under the delusion that he is a centaur, is planning to tour the Parthenon. The suitcase contains a pocket model of the edifice, but this is no substitute for Keats' "Ode to a Grecian Urn...