Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Johnny Roman, 25, was shot to death while in bed; the autopsy showed he was "in a fetal position with his legs drawn up," when two Richmond, Cal., policemen fired four bullets into him. The cops had come to arrest Roman on charges of harassing his family. The coroner's testimony contradicted the officer's statement that Roman had reached for a shotgun near his bed...
...same two Richmond police officers, part of a group assigned to the Black community and called "the cowboys," also "kicked ass" in 1982, when they killed 21-year-old Michael Guillory--while he was in bed. Three officers, responding to a call from family members complaining about Guillory, came to his home. While two of them were breaking down Guillory's door, the third--Samuel Dudkiewicz, who also killed Roman--shot Guillory through a window to the bedroom. Dudkiewicz claimed that Guillory had "a shiny object," which turned out not to be a weapon of any sort...
...been other suggestions?Briefs, Hours, Destiny, Chance. The editorial staff fitted easily into three taxis to go to the printing plant. There, in an all-night siege "amid torn newspapers, fried-egg sandwiches and smudged proof sheets," according to a later account, the first issue was put to bed. And yet when the 24-year-old Henry Luce, co-founder of the magazine with Briton Hadden, looked at the result the next afternoon, he was pleasantly surprised: "It was quite good. Somehow it all held together...
Below decks the crash and the quick list of Andrea Doria lifted sleepers out of bed and hurled them around cabins, to be sprayed by flying porthole glass. Passengers an stairways were jerked off and slapped to the deck. Smoke drifted back from the long (40 ft.) gash along the ship's starboard. Oil and water sloshed along the corridors. Over the ship's loudspeaker came Italian commands to remain calm, but they were only half heard or not understood...
...spent her last day alive sunbathing, glancing over filmscripts, playing with two cloth dolls-a lamb and a tiger. She went to bed early, but later her housekeeper noticed light spilling through the crack under her bedroom door, and summoned doctors. They broke in through her windows and found Marilyn Monroe dead. By her bedside stood an empty bottle that three days before had held 50 sleeping pills. One hand rested on the telephone and the other was at her chin, holding the sheets that covered her body...