Word: trunk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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American Motors. The once boxy Ambassador and Classic now have sleek, sculptured roof lines and rounded-off rear fenders and trunk. Except for minor trim, the low-priced American is outwardly unchanged, but it offers an optional "E-stick" gearshift that enables the driver to change gears without a clutch and costs only one-third as much as an automatic transmission...
...been decreed that women are like fountains: if anyone is thirsty, he drinks from the nearest one. Mah is peacefully attending to his duties as the custodian of a temple to Mao (formerly a temple to Confucius) when his room is invaded by a Female Old Tree Trunk (party member of long standing) who is pregnant by a local party boss. She announces that Mah is her new Comrade Sweetheart, and that he will be the "honorary father" of the child she is about to have. It is no use protesting, Mah finds, because the party boss insists...
When Liberation Mah is born, the Tree Trunk disappears, and Cripple Mah sets out with the baby and an old billy goat, which he had purchased under the impression that it was a nanny, to seek his fortune in Peking. It is not long before he is supporting another Comrade Sweetheart. Even in a progressive state, this is one cup of water too many, and soon Mah finds himself in a corrective labor camp, being washed of bigamous thoughts. Everything turns out well, just in time for the second-act curtain. Says San Franciscan Lee, who last saw his native...
...troops presented arms. When the car reached a French roadblock, a paratrooper flagged down the Lincoln. "Who is this personage?" he demanded. Unimpressed on learning Dag's identity, the private poked his head inside the car, ostensibly looking for weapons. Then he ordered the chauffeur to open the trunk compartment. White with anger, Hammarskjold snapped: "You are probably unaware of the fact that I have diplomatic immunity." Replied the paratrooper: "I have my orders." While a knot of French soldiers grinned their amusement, a paratroop lieutenant asked lazily: "Who is Hammarskjold, anyway...
...Cuba's 6,000,000 people spying for him. On the 15-mile drive from his home to Havana, Pepe had to run ten checks: "Each time, they open the hood and look for guns in the engine. They look under the seat, in the trunk, everywhere. They take pictures, too," said Pepe, "of people going to church, going into certain offices, even just on the street." Recently, a wounded saboteur was making his confession to a priest from his hospital bed he later learned that a microphone hidden in the mattress had recorded everything...