Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...person. A mile or so away, engineer Bruce Stephan was driving home on the upper deck of the Bay Bridge. He gripped the steering wheel hard as the car bounced up and down, then plunged toward the water. A 50-ft. piece of roadway had broken off and fallen onto the lower deck, carrying him with it. "Janice, we are going to die!" he shouted to his passenger. But something caught the car, and they were able to crawl out the windows to safety. Don Laviletta, riding his motorcycle on the upper deck, described how the roadway bulged and rippled...
Engineer Steven Whipple, hailed as a hero of the rescue, said he was checking the fallen double-deck free-way for stability on Saturday when he spotted the back of Helm's head with his flashlight, and then saw a hand wave...
Crews sawed the fallen five-lane section of the upper deck of the Bay Bridge in half and lifted one section down to a barge for repairs yesterday. The vital link between San Francisco and Oakland is expected to be closed for four weeks...
...aren't broken. Today is No. 1 in the morning-news ratings, and has been for nearly four years. Yet its margin over ABC's Good Morning America has been shrinking. For the past two weeks, Today has led by only 0.4 of a rating point, and it has fallen to second place in the key demographic group of women ages 25 to 54. "There were a lot of people who thought the show was a little stale," says an NBC executive, "and that maybe it's when you're on top that you should do something about...
This account is disputed by Adjua Abi Naantaanbuu, a Memphis barber who acknowledges cooking dinner for Abernathy, King and his assistant, Bernard Lee, on the evening in question. She contends that Abernathy, having fallen unconscious while drinking, occupied her bedroom until about 3:45 a.m., when she and King put an ice pack on his neck to wake him. Said she: "If there was any sex going down in my bedroom, it was by Abernathy himself." The former Kentucky lawmaker, Georgia Powers of Louisville, was at the Lorraine Motel that night but declined to comment...