Word: comas
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...murder his wife with insulin injections began in Providence last week, the media glare was even more relentless than last time. The Danish aristocrat's wife Martha (nicknamed "Sunny," for her disposition) von Auersperg von Bulow, heiress to a Pittsburgh fortune estimated at $35 million, went into an irreversible coma at Christmastime 1980 at the couple's oceanfront Newport home. An impassive Von Bulow was convicted in 1982 on two counts of attempted murder and sentenced to 30 years in prison. But last April, after his newly retained defense attorney, the high-powered Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, filed...
...well aware of what he would get if his wife died." The prosecution's first witness was Mrs. Von Bulow's maid of 23 years, Maria Schrallhammer, an overwrought, slightly bowed woman who could have stepped out of a whodunit. Schrallhammer recounted how her mistress had slipped into a coma while Von Bulow, sitting unperturbed on the bed reading in his bathrobe and pajamas, resisted calling a doctor for nearly five hours. "I picked her up and was holding her in my arms until the doctor came," said Schrallhammer, tears brimming in her eyes...
...cave first." He will play Abel to Willie's Cain, and also be a deadly left-handed hitter, deadly that when, years later, he slams a teammate's pitch into a dark summer night on a date, he hits Clare Bishop in the forehead and she goes into a coma...
...Burow has been in an irreversible coma in a New York hospital for the past four years...
...Come in a car, leave in a coma." So read a Nebraska bar's ad for its happy hour, that afterwork party time when saloons sell spirits at a discount. But with concern growing that happy hours may lead to driving deaths, an increasing number of states are barring barroom discounts...