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Word: trunk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meanwhile, the gang harvest mounted. Two days before Triplett's escape, two bodies stabbed and beaten beyond recognition turned up in the trunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: The Gang's Still There | 6/1/1962 | See Source »

...John Wayne's forthcoming African epic, Hatari, Heroine Elsa Martinelli leads three baby elephants, trunk to tail, to a jungle water hole, then back up a hill to a camp. It is a nice scene, but hardly vital to the film. What makes it indispensable is Mancini's music - a calliope, then a bass clarinet noodling a theme suggested by the old boogie-woogie tune, Down the Road a Piece. For the current Experiment in Terror, Mancini uses an autoharp; each appearance of the villain is marked by its dissonant and eerie chords...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Never Too Much Music | 5/25/1962 | See Source »

Someone in the crowd bawled: "How 'bout daily doubles?" but Russin plunged on, revealing that Sonita's trunk measures eight feet. This caused another member of the audience to ask: "What are her other measurements?" Most of Russin's reply was drowned out by laughter, but the audience did hear that she is not married and cheered lustily...

Author: By Lawrence W. Feinberg, | Title: Crowd Hails Elephant From Widener Steps; Toss Coins for Sonita | 5/9/1962 | See Source »

...health too." Galbraith, who issued the original invitation last November, had to change signals diplomatically all around India. The Maharajah of Mysore, for example, stopped the training of an elephant that was to put a garland of flowers around the First Lady's neck with its trunk. Back to their stalls went the maharajah's performing horses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Matter of Health | 3/9/1962 | See Source »

...eliminate the troublesome "hump" caused by the drive shaft in most cars; a 70-h.p., V-4 engine that promises up to 35 miles per gallon of gas and rockets the little car along at more than 80 m.p.h. ; sculptured styling that will allow for more leg room and trunk space than the Volkswagen. Price: around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: Coming for 1963 | 3/9/1962 | See Source »

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