Word: burial
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could not understand why their cattle should be given up to slaughter, the killing has been stopped (except animals actually infected) in favor of quarantine and vaccination of all Mexican cattle. But Bob Kleberg storms that neither of these methods has ever proved effective unless accompanied by slaughter and burial...
...some of whom had watched Nellie transform her boarding house into the swank Desert Inn. The story of Nellie had become local history: how she had set herself up as a sort of self-appointed Chamber of Commerce to bring tourists in, keep gamblers out, double as preacher at burial services, and occasionally help neighbors...
When they died, common Muscovites were simply wrapped in a pall and carried yo the burial ground, behind an icon; in their hands was placed a piece of paper with a prayer for the repose of their souls. This prompted an early Moscow correspondent, who had discovered that there was less freedom of movement in Moscow than anywhere in Europe, to report: "The Russ, when he dies, hath his passport to St. Nicolas buried with...
Edna asserted her new freedom at once. She insisted on wearing a dashing hat to Mother's burial. It was one of those flower-&-fruit affairs trimmed with poppies and cherries...
...Queen Victoria Jubilee Hall, thousands of weeping Burmans stood in the rain awaiting their turns to file past the embalmed bodies of U Aung San and his Buddhist fellow victims (which will lie in state a month before burial). Burma now had a martyr and a legend. The Bogyok's A.F.P.F.L. party was more popular than ever, but its leadership had been almost obliterated. British Governor Sir Hubert Elvin Rance (who gets assassination threats almost every day) announced to Burmans: "I am glad to inform you that . . . Thakin Nu [the murdered leader's right-hand man] has agreed...