Word: wreathe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Karl Marx, whose Das Kapital is the Bible of Communism, had visitors. To his grave in London's jampacked Highgate Cemetery came Andrei Vishinsky, at the head of Russia's UNO delegation, and deposited on the bearded prophet's plain stone slab a wreath of lilies and red carnations...
Abraham Lincoln (in bronze) had visitors in Manhattan's soapbox center, Union Square: a delegation from the National Republican Club, which deposited a wreath...
...Gatineau Hills for a windy walk. Monday morning Clem Attlee sat by a coal fire at Earnscliffe and was interviewed by reporters. He talked only in generalities, about foreign trade chiefly. Then, as visiting dignitaries always do, he stepped out to Ottawa's Confederation Square, laid a wreath at the foot of the city's World War I memorial...
...Armistice Day-the three heads of state motored to Arlington Cemetery. It was raw and windy. As the motorcade entered the cemetery, the 21-gun presidential salute from three 755 boomed out over the Virginia hills. After a minute of silent prayer, each of the three men laid a wreath of chrysanthemums on the marble sarcophagus of the Unknown Soldier. Taps sounded, and the roll of muffled drums. There were no speeches...
From the Iowa, anchored in Sagami Bay, TIME Correspondent John Walker radioed: "Off our port beam we saw the vast bulk of the holy mountain, Fuji, almost concealed in a wreath of clouds which could have been a mourning robe of traditional Japanese white - the color of death." The advance guard of airborne invaders landed at Atsugi; their transports disgorged aviation engineers, jeeps, gasoline, rations, radios, to prepare for the grand entry of the 11th Airborne Division and of MacArthur himself. Between Atsugi and the fleet was the Emperor's seaside palace at Hayama, destined to be MacArthur...