Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...both sides say that the victim and accused had no reason to dislike each other. "If somebody would have told Naomi that boy was there, she would have gone anyway," says Isaac Huyard, one of four brothers who live on nearby farms. Herr's mother says Jimmy was asleep when she left for work on the day of the crime. John Herr, 60, an industrial custodian, returned from work at about 6 p.m., an hour or so after Naomi Huyard left her farm. Herr fixed himself some thing to eat, and Jimmy came up from the basement...
...shines. With two previous books, The Garden of Abdul Gasazi and last year's Jumanji, Chris Van Allsburg has become the reigning master of black-and-white illustration. In his third work, Ben's Dream (Houghton Mifflin; $8.95), the pictorial style far outdistances the story. Ben falls asleep and abruptly finds himself awash in a second flood. Only the tops of things show: the head and shoulders of the Statue of Liberty, the tip of Big Ben, the peak of Mount Rushmore, where the bust of George Washington finally wakes the boy up. Reading this dream...
Pates reportedly told investigators that he fell asleep in his 7-ft. by 8-ft. isolation cell while smoking a cigarette, which he had against jail regulations. The fire was extinguished in seven minutes, but lingering black smoke continued to fell prisoners. Pates, 31, was one of the first to be freed from the north cell block, and escaped with minor burns...
...Bulow was convicted March 16 of attempting to kill has wealthy wife. Martha "sunny" Von Bulow, try injecting her within slum while she was asleep...
...inmates were asleep when the fire started at about 1.30 a.m. and they were quickly overcome by smoke from the smoldering polyurethane, a synthetic material used as protective padding in an isolation cell, said Harold Windham, an assistant fire chief...