Word: urn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hero's death at the Bolshevists' hands." And last week in Munich's Waldfriedhof, as 1,500 Eastern European exiles watched silently, Bandera's coffin, draped with the blue-and-yellow banner of Ukrainian independence, was lowered into a simple grave hallowed by an urn full of Ukrainian soil...
...seven people earning $1.30 per hour or more, behind a counter to dish out food when three could do an adequate job. An automatic milk dispenser would serve as well as a part-time employee--and is there a real need to station a person behind the coffee urn at luncheon when one-fifth or less of the students may want a hot drink? Since labor does make up such a large part of the board rate, primary economies should be made in this direction...
Like La Rochefoucauld, Mademoiselle was destined to die in bed. But even death did not spare her a final characteristic misadventure. Her body lay in state for several days. Gossipist Saint-Simon describes the "most ridiculous thing" that then happened: "In mid-ceremony, the urn containing the entrails exploded with a frightful noise and a sudden insufferable stink. Instantly, there were the ladies, some of them swooning with horror, others taking flight ... the monks ... in the act of singing psalms, all made for the doors ... the chaos was extreme...
Adenauer himself had urged that the election not be held in West Berlin, lest it give provocation to the Soviets. Similarly, the U.S. had suggested that the votes of West Berlin's own electors be dropped into a separate urn to underline the city's position as a four-power occupied area; on this "special status" of Berlin hangs much of the Western legal argument at Geneva. But the boss of West Germany's Bundestag, Eugen Ger-stenmaier, capturing the mood of many patriots, was determined to dramatize the opposite-that West Berlin indeed is part...
...Italian neighborhood with a heavy lacing of art galleries, sandal shoppes and beatnickery-and found a 30-by-40-ft. store at Greenwich Street and Grant Avenue. He moved his wife and two children into a flat upstairs, furnished the store with a hi-fi set, a coffee urn and 2,000 books of his own, and opened up a year...