Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then the jurors retired to a deliberation room dominated by wooden tables, where they joined in macabre re-enactments of the crime. "We used two tables to simulate the bed," recalls Marian West, an administrative assistant for a community service program. Von Glahn, donning the bloodstained pajama top, played the doctor, as other jurors came at him with the actual gun. "We did it many, many times," said one. "It was Jean Harris' testimony that convicted her," said Marie Jackson, a clerical worker. "We tried it like it was told. We couldn't see how he could have...
...room" in the main cell-block will contain a seatless toilet, a basin, bed and two shelves. Prisoners may decorate their rooms with bedspreads, curtains, wooden toilet covers, bedside tables and plants. Each floor has a recreation room with a television set, and if Harris becomes a star prisoner, she may some day watch TV and cook in her own cellblock. There is a school on the premises, though many of the courses may not interest a former headmistress: remedial English, auto repair, IBM keypunching, hairdressing. Bedford Hills is not an oppressively grim place to serve a sentence...
...losing era. Junior forward Tom Clarke had the honor of hitting a lay-up at the buzzer, guaranteeing him a smidgen of immortality. After the sparse crowd filed out, and while a baby McLaughlin and a baby Fleming played on the deserted bleachers, one of the old wooden backboards, as if of its own volition, sank slowly into the ready position. Intramurals...
...near-miraculous playoff run ended here, beneath the wooden rafters of Lynah Rink. The icemen have two league games remaining--at Vermont and Dartmouth--but even a pair of wins won't mean much unless Yale and Cornell lose everything. Since they play each other next Saturday night, that isn't likely...
...further for the final match. Kooyong is Australia's Wimbledon, the most hallowed tennis ground under the Southern Cross. But Kooyong's center court is grass, and Borg refused .to play on that fast surface. So Promoter Paul Dainty shelled out another $48,000 to build a wooden platform and synthetic surface over the grass, allowing a five-inch airspace for the grass to "breathe...