Word: second-floor
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...call came before 5 a.m., summoning the chief court physician to the bedside of the ailing monarch. Since September, when the aging Emperor was first stricken with internal hemorrhaging, he had remained in a second-floor bedroom of his residence within the walled, moated and heavily wooded grounds of the Imperial Palace. A victim of duodenal cancer, he grew weaker each day. Dr. Akira Takagi rushed into the palace within minutes of the summons, followed closely by Crown Prince Akihito and his wife Crown Princess Michiko, then by Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita. At 6:33 a.m. Emperor Hirohito, once worshiped...
...plate was, well, unforgettable. Fourteen at-bats, 10 shots to the second-floor fire escape...
...slated to start the third game of the series. Matt and Kevin's park was completely different, a whiffle ball's Fenway. The infield was the asphalt of the street and the home run wall was the second-floor fire escape on Matt's building...
Sudden, colossal vacancies: Lyndon Johnson capitulated and removed himself from the melodrama. The nation had barely absorbed that event when, five days later, Martin Luther King Jr. leaned over the second-floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel in a black neighborhood of Memphis and was hit in the neck by a rifle bullet. He was pronounced dead an hour later...
...early November, after Tribe's secretaries heard strange noises over his office phone line, the professor hired an outside surveillance expert who uncovered an extension wire leading from Tribe's third-floor office in Griswold Hall to a computer terminal on the second-floor. That wire, however, was not one of the phone company's, and was determined to be an unauthorized wiretap...