Word: motionless
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...different story began to circulate. News organizations quoted two witnesses as saying policemen held Grams down after he was captured and shot him to death at point-blank range. Said Joanna Baron, a sales-clerk at a station food stand: "Two policemen walked up to Grams, who was lying motionless. One bent over and shot him several times from close up. Then the second officer shot at Grams, but more at his stomach and legs. He shot several times." The subsequent medical examination supported eyewitness accounts: it showed that the shot that caused the fatal wound to Grams' head...
GETTING SUBJECTS TO POSE FOR PHOTOGRAPHS IS always a tough job. But award- winning photographer James Balog had a special problem in shooting the pictures for this week's cover story on animal intelligence. He had to coax a fidgety seven-year-old chimpanzee named Sally to sit motionless in the pose of Auguste Rodin's classic bronze sculpture The Thinker. Why The Thinker? Because, explains Balog, "it makes such a strong, symbolic statement of consciousness, awareness and studied thought...
...CRUNCH OR A MOAN BUT a horrified hush spreading through the crowd that signaled the ghastly instant. On the Astroturf at Giants stadium, Jets defensive lineman Dennis Byrd lay motionless, unable to move his hands or legs. With all the power of his 266 lbs. of hurtling flesh, Byrd had unintentionally rammed his helmeted head into the chest of his 275-lb. teammate Scott Mersereau. The impact crumpled a vertebra in Byrd's neck, crushing part of the underlying spinal cord as well as plunging dagger-like slivers of bone into the soft, vital nerve tissue...
Four undergraduates rushed from the crowd to aid Klupinski, who lay motionless on the sidewalk after his approximately 36-foot fall...
Goalie Allain Roy sat motionless in the net assophomore forward Chris Baird, fellow goalieChuckie Hughes and Coach Ronn Tomassoni crossedthe ice to console...