Word: urn
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...appetite, she is a compulsive time killer, shows a disturbing skill at batting a paddle ball on a string-which Marilyn does constantly. On the set last week, Marilyn was obviously afraid to act and troubled by her responsibility to her husband's script. Drinking coffee by the urn, she trembled, tried to control her shaking hands, broke out in a blotchy rash, spoke in a voice so constricted that it was barely audible. "I can't remember. I can't remember," she said, apologizing to Director Huston for a series of fluffs. She might well have...
...Deputy whipped out a small submachine gun from under his flowing sports shirt and blasted away. Every light in the district, including the Chehab villa, blinked out - somebody had hit the power line. In a candlelight celebration, the Deputies ceremoniously burned the President's resignation in a silver urn...
...scene was set in the unfinished grand ballroom of what was to have been the Belgian Governor's new official residence. Now it was the debating hall of the Congo's first Parliament. A grey wastebasket was pressed into service as the voting urn. Amid the happy hubbub, a black soldier loped down the aisle, crying, "Mr. President of the Provisional Assembly, he has arrived!" As the President strode briskly to his seat, his Belgian adviser whispered, "Have you got your hammer...
...Hero of the War of Independence" and decreed that his remains be transferred from the cemetery to the Pantheon of Heroes in Caracas, resting place of Bolivar and the rest of Venezuela's great. In preparation, the people of Cumana put the bones in a small, carved mahogany urn. But it took five years for officials in Caracas to dispatch the warship Miranda to Cumana to get the urn, and then the Miranda was diverted instead to another part of the country to quell a rebellion. Sucre's citizens hinted darkly that Caracas was in no hurry...
When an earthquake nearly destroyed the church in 1928, the urn and its contents were found intact. Delfin Rojas, the church sexton, made it his special business to guard the urn while the church was rebuilt, and still preserves it carefully in a belltower storage room, among tattered and dusty saints and icons. Last week Interior Minister Luis Augusto Dubuc promised Sucre that General Garcia's remains this year will at last find their ultimate resting place in the Pantheon, as Venezuela marks the 150th anniversary of its independence...