Word: graving
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...evening came, the crowd drifted away, the television crews dismantled their equipment, the drums stopped pounding. That night, while the flame flickered in the dark over heaps of wreaths and flowers and a litter of film wrappings, crumpled bags and rolls of TV cable, Jackie Kennedy returned to the grave with Bobby. She put a small bouquet of lilies on the grave, prayed, wept, and went away...
Just two hours after the burial of President Kennedy, the body of Lee Harvey Oswald was put into a hastily dug grave in Fort Worth's Rose Hill cemetery. The arrangements were made quietly by the Secret Service. The only mourners were Oswald's 56-year-old mother Marguerite, his Russian-born wife Marina, 22, his two baby daughters and his brother Robert, 29, a Denton, Texas, brick salesman...
...dead husband's fingers and kissed him. The coffin was closed and lowered into a 6-ft.-deep vault, which weighed 2,700 lbs., was asphalt-lined and reinforced with steel bars. Said the funeral director: "It would be extremely hard for anyone to break into the grave...
...presidency. Columnist Joseph Alsop was pleased by the prospect that President Johnson planned to keep, for a while at least, most of Kennedy's advisers. But there was one for whom Alsop was willing to open the exit door. "Superhuman fortitude will be required," said Alsop, "or a grave disaster will be risked, if Attorney General Robert Kennedy tries to serve another man as he served his brother." The New York Times's James Reston urged the late President's corps of White House advisers to conquer their grief, which had led some of them "to confuse...
Author Pogue writes with grave admiration but indicates that behind the soldier's icy reserve was a capacity for friendliness sometimes oddly revealed. Marshall liked to unbend with practical jokes, once took the trouble to steal his adjutant's watch just so he could solemnly present it back to him at a formal awards ceremony. Before marrying his second wife (his first wife had died) Marshall drove her home from a dinner but deliberately took an hour doing it. When she remarked that he must be lost, Marshall replied: Quite the contrary. If he did not know...