Word: gurneys
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...cream for his final meal. He conferred with his lawyers on the morning of the execution, and made a point, witnesses said, of seeking out eye contact with each person who was there to see him die. After the lethal injection was delivered he lay still on the gurney, covered by a white sheet. At 7:14 Central Time, the warden pronounced him dead...
...good care of you, you know that?" says Dr. Robert Michler, as he fixes his dark blue eyes on the 79-year-old patient to whom he's about to give a heart bypass. "I know that," answers Paul Oaks with a placid smile, as he lies on a gurney in a thin gown and floppy hospital...
...attached to one of those rope-devices reminiscent of jail-lines. Seeing the children, the officers moved into super-speed body-bagging, wrenching the man’s arms down to fit into the bag. They zipped the bag up just as the children crossed the street, blocking the gurney from view with their bodies. The children didn’t notice...
...gloved officer collected the dead man’s blankets and belongings into black garbage bags. The gurney was rolled into the van, the “Police Line Do Not Cross” tape was taken down, and the van pulled away. No signs of death remained...
Watson was chosen in a year-long world-wide search to fill the gap in the English department faculty left by the recent retirement of noted medieval scholars Derek Pearsall, Gurney professor of English Literature, and Larry D. Benson, Higginson professor of English literature...