Word: coffining
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Cook talked with dozens of Marines, heard their firsthand stories of Bloody Ridge and Coffin Corner and Hill 660, looked at their snapshots, dodged around them as they wrestled in the aisles, joined in when they sang Someone's in the Kitchen with Dinah...
...mowed down the Japs like hay at Bloody Ridge, and crossed the bloody Matanikau River; the invaders of Cape Gloucester, the rain-drenched fighters of Talasea, the men who took Hill 660 when they should have been annihilated halfway up; the unnamed defenders of Nameless Hill, the survivors of Coffin Corner...
...drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. . . . No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around...
...Robert Peter Tristram Coffin, poet and Bowdoin professor of English, who last week trod Longfellow's trail (in Brunswick's First Parish Church) and read a sesquicentennial poem of his own composition...
This film version of Eric Ambler's A Coffin For Dimitrios goes in for rich, talky theatricality rather than realism. But on its own level it is lively entertainment, distinguished by some better-than-fair performances (Veterans Lorre and Greenstreet, wolfish Newcomer Zachary Scott and mousily appealing Steven Geray...