Word: processional
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Last week Ilse's hysterics and absence from the courtroom did not delay her trial. The procession of witnesses went on, was expected to continue at least another four weeks. Since West Germany has abolished the death penalty, the prosecution hopes to put Ilse behind bars for life.
First, Brahman priests bathed the dead man's body in holy Ganges water, placed a green tulsi leaf between his lips and marked his forehead with yellow sandalwood paste and red kumkum powder. Then, in the late afternoon, a gun carriage drawn by Indian soldiers, sailors and airmen carried...
"I think it was just as surprising a day for me as it was for Dean," MacLeish recalls. "As we walked past University Hall and Widener in the procession, I remembered this was the same path we used when we were law students, walking around learning our cases. Only today...
The procession of dead and wounded seemed endless; men with stretchers pushed through the crowd to pile bodies in a nearby driveway, to carry the wounded to ambulances or into a nearby kitchen where surgeons operated on a table covered with bloody bedsheets. For 4½ hours the two telescoped...
At the head of the Chinese procession strode General Wu Hsiu-chuan, director of the U.S.S.R. and Eastern European Division of the Peking Foreign Office. Waiting at the airport customs shed Wu & friends found Russia's Jacob Malik. As he gave Wu the glad hand, Malik drew a sheaf...