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- noun Plural form of
coffin . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
coffin .
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VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Canadian Prime Minister Pulls a Bush, Slaps Ban on Media Coverage of Coffins Returning Home'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'day after Canada\'s newspapers carried front-page photos of the flag-draped coffins of four soldiers killed in Afghanistan, the Conservative government slapped a ban on news media coverage of the coffins\' return home to Canada on Tuesday.
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Food will be served in coffins, and writers and vampire “experts” from around the globe will speak at the event to discuss vampire portrayal in traditional versus modern culture.
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I believe the Bush administration limited the media'a access to those coming home in coffins from war zones.
Rep. King on Jackson: 'There's nothing good about this guy' 2009
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Some sleep in coffins and are repelled by crosses.
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In the capital of Ghana well-off families often bury their members in coffins shaped like objects important to the deceased — an onion for a farmer, a sword for a tribal leader, a Mercedes Benz for a successful businessman.
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In the capital of Ghana well-off families often bury their members in coffins shaped like objects important to the deceased — an onion for a farmer, a sword for a tribal leader, a Mercedes Benz for a successful businessman.
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The airport's colorful and undeniably creepy diptych murals depicting things such as a gas-mask wearing Gestapo officer impaling a dove with his saber, and three dead women in coffins, don't help quell the rumors that DIA is some kind of grand mystic lodge for the reptilian overlords who secretly run everything.
Boing Boing 2007
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It reminds me of the joke, Why do they put nails in coffins?
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In that case, over the winter, we could be seeing soldiers coming home in coffins in very large numbers. read more ...
Bloggers - which is it to be? Richard 2006
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And how about the murder of all the troops that are coming back in coffins draped with flags?
Think Progress » Snow on Bush Stem Cell Veto: ‘The Simple Answer Is He Thinks Murder Is Wrong’ 2006
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