Word: burial
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...earthquake. A group of Greek Orthodox priests in conical hats chat quietly in the courtyard, and inside a Russian nun kneels beneath the dim flicker of three lanterns to kiss the Stone of Unction, where Christ's body is supposed to have been anointed for burial (several such Stones of Unction are said to have been kissed away by pilgrims...
...many were killed no traveler could say; newspaper mention of the rioting was censored clear down to the burial notices. The minimum eyewitness count of the dead was two and the highest estimate was 20. Other estimates: wounded, 70 to 100, jailed...
...burial place of the great Jewish philosopher Maimonides (1135-1205) was determined, so legend has it, when the camel that bore his bones from Cairo to Palestine refused to budge from a spot near the Sea of Galilee. In time, the modern city of Tiberias grew up around the old square stone that marked his grave. The burial ground became a grubby lot littered with shacks and privies...
...federal claim for back taxes on Macfadden's es tate, Foundation President Edward Bodin stated the sad tidings: "He was actually broke, as he claimed, before he died. Judging by investigations so far, it is unlikely that the estate of Bernarr Macfadden will be able to meet the burial costs and legal expenses...
Both apparent suicides died by carbon monoxide poisoning. Smith was visiting relatives at Radnor when he was found in a garage on Christmas Eve, dead from the fumes of the family's automobile. Radnor Police Surgeon Dr. A. J. Pitone gave a verdict of suicide and burial was on Dec. 28, in Whitemarsh, Pa. Smith lived near Amherst, Mass., with his father, an associate professor of chemistry at the University of Massachusetts. He was an editor of the CRIMSON...