Word: burial
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...units"* while spinach had only 3.8. Rice, all important in Japan, was comparatively high (10.4 units), but shellfish from Tokyo Bay had only .04 units. Highest count was from tuna caught in Bikini waters in 1956: 53.5 units. The scientists also examined the ashes of 20 persons, taken from burial urns, and found that their strontium 90 count varied from .06 units for an elderly man who lived in Niigata, to 4.1 units for a survivor of the Nagasaki bombing who died...
...loudspeakers in the living room were silent, but everywhere the eulogies and the memorials began. In Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral, a solemn pontifical Requiem Mass was offered by Cardinal Spellman (though Toscanini had never been noticeably religious). His body will be taken to Milan for burial. Arturo Toscanini's epitaph might best be expressed in words spoken by the Austrian poet Grillparzer at Beethoven's grave: "Whoever comes after him will not be able to continue; he will have to begin again, for his predecessor ended only where art itself must...
...unable to speak more, dipped a hand in his own blood and traced a great cross on the floor ..." A contemporary chronicler wrote: "Afterward he was poorly buried. All his grandeur and all his riches vanished, and the means could not be found to pay for candles at his burial...
...Metropolitan Museum of Art last week were aglow with an unprecedented display of masterpieces. On view were Giotto's famed Paduan fresco Betrayal of Christ, Piero della Francesca's looming Resurrection, the Louvre's Mona Lisa, El Greco's towering 16-by12-ft. Burial of Count Orgaz and Georges Seurat's 7-by-10-ft. Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. To equal the experience, an art lover would have had to visit 26 museums, travel some 15,000. miles...
...heroines. The Brewster sisters do not merely murder; they simply help lonely old men find peace. They serve elderberry wine (to one gallon of wine, add one tsp. arsenic, one-half tsp. strychnine, and just a pinch of cyanide), and give each of their gentlemen a full burial in the rites of his religion. "Murder? Certainly not! It's one of our charities." And, in their sweet way, they have a point...