Word: trunk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assessment, but, sometimes, getting the story out of Glassboro proved hardest. Communications were a shambles, and reporters were reduced to queuing up outside a few phone booths in the yard. At one point, Bruce Nelan was trying impatiently to get a call through to New York on the overloaded trunk line. As he waited and waited, a Japanese newsman appeared at the phone next to him, asked for a Tokyo number, and got it instantly...
...sere landscape. The nubile girls have never seen a man; their leader can scarcely remember what one looks like. Equipped with some of the trappings of the defunct civilization-tin cans, rifles, combat boots-they live like savages, telling the years by counting the rings of a tree trunk, hunting by blasting fish out of the river water with grenades...
...tree that grew as high as 65 ft.-50 million years earlier than other trees of comparable height are known to have appeared. On a recent expedition to Bear Island, Schweitzer reports in the current issue of the German journal Umschau, he unearthed the first portion of Pseudobornia trunk ever found, a 33-ft. fossilized section composed of bamboo-like segments. It was lodged at the base of a cliff in an Upper Devonian Period stratum some 300 million years old. How it got there is a mystery that Schweitzer hopes to solve on a future expedition, when he will...
Electronic billboards posted about the grounds tripped on their own electrical connections, produced tongue-twisting typographical errors. The most embarrassing were the signs touting FLOKLORE OF ETHKOPIA while Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I was touring the site. At India's pavilion, someone stole the trunk of a clay elephant, and the sturgeons in the Soviet pavilion pool had to thrash about to dodge hundreds of pennies visitors tossed at them...
...PALMS," read the headline that kicked off its nationwide campaign. "Most people are scared witless of flying," it went on. Moreover, the ad revealed, every time a P.A.L. plane takes off a pilot wonders "if this is it." Explaining the odd campaign, New York Lawyer Matthew E. McCarthy, the trunk line's chief executive and biggest shareholder, said: "It's basically honest. We spoof the passengers' concern, but at least we admit they have...