Word: mortalized
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Gandhi's son Ramdas poured sacred cow's milk into the urn of ashes, swirled it, then slowly poured the mixture into the water.* Gandhi's soul, according to Hindu belief, was at last free from its mortal prison. At the same moment, milkmen of nearby Allahabad, in a unique tribute, poured barrels of milk into the stream...
...amazed at the constant peering into the casket by those present and the conversation concerning the deceased as though she herself were lying in the casket and not her mortal remains. One niece kept a 48-hour vigil beside the body while it lay at the funeral home awaiting burial because she "didn't want Auntie to be left alone" Photographs were made of the body in the casket and distributed among the relatives several weeks later...
...Aldous Huxley, ran into more than the customary flurry of title trouble. Huxley worked the script up out of his short story, The Gioconda Smile. The studio, advising him that this title was "too obtuse," asked him to try again. Huxley cheerfully suggested another he has used successfully: Mortal Coils. After a good deal of considering, U-I rejected that one on the grounds that people might mistake it for Brooklynese for "curls" or "girls" (doubtless a goil named Moitle...
...London, Abdullah denied that his father was dead, cryptically added: "Conditions are unsettled and it's understandable that some extravagant reports might come from Yemen." At week's end, the secret of Yahya's mortal status and worldly successor was still hidden behind the mud-brick walls of his capital...
...disgruntled Navy airmen, whose mortal fear is that the independent Air Force will try to swallow the Navy's air arm, lean, 51-year-old Annapolisman Radford is the one admiral who is outspoken enough to hold the service together. Commander of the Second Task Force of the Atlantic Fleet, he has been a pilot since 1920, has served in nearly every branch of the Navy air arm from fighter squadrons to command of a carrier task group in the Pacific. He has also done his desk time in Washington, got his battle command because of his decisive slicing...