Word: trunk
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...closets upstairs we found a large trunk with the name "DERRICK" on it in huge letters, which we decided to bring downstairs to use as a coffee table in the living room. Inspired by Derrick's vicarious presence on the vomit-stained rug as we lounged around after long days at our respective summer jobs, my roommates and I soon began making up long and elaborate stories about Derrick, his housemates and their charming home. It was clear to us, for example, how the bar had reached its final resting place. ("Man, we were totally trashed, and then...
ARRESTED. IRA EINHORN, 57, peace-spouting hippie guru who escaped to Europe 16 years ago after fatally beating his former girlfriend and stuffing her mummified remains in a trunk; at his home in Champagne-Mouton, France. A favorite of Philadelphia's intelligentsia in the 1970s, Einhorn was convicted of first-degree murder in absentia in 1993. He faces extradition...
Barely able to control his excitement, Marcel sped into town with counterintelligence corps officer Sheridan Cavitt, picked up Brazel and headed out to the ranch. After collecting the debris--which Brazel later reported weighed no more than 5 lbs.--they stowed it in the trunk of Marcel's Buick. On his way back to Roswell, Marcel stopped at his home to show off the booty. Marcel's son Jesse Jr., now 60 and a doctor in Helena, Mont., remembers being awakened by his father and shown tinfoil, plastic, "beams or struts" that seemed metallic, and some strange markings that...
...your bags," said one driver. "Tonight, you're out of here!" When Sarhane told him to back off, the man drove up on the sidewalk and rammed the motorcycle broadside. "They were trying to kill us," says Sarhane, who suffered serious neck injuries. Police investigating the collision found the trunk of the vehicle filled with iron bars and baseball bats. Its occupants received wrist-slap fines and suspended jail sentences for illegal weapons possession. Then Sarhane was summarily fired from his job by the new city administration...
...parking lot. We call it the Survivor Tree. Julie always liked to park her little red Grand Am on the east side of that tree, in the shade. Now it's the only living thing left in this place. When I go there, sometimes I lean against the trunk, close my eyes, listen to the leaves and think about the way it used to be. Then I go down to the fence, and strangers will sometimes ask me questions: "Where was the front door to the building?" or "Where was the truck parked?" Then I tell them...