Word: trunk
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From between the heavy draperies of House majority whip Tom DeLay's first-floor Capitol office, a bizarre scene could be glimpsed outside. In the normally quiet, heavily guarded parking lot, 13 elephants from the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus were parading trunk-in-tail across the East Plaza, leading an entourage of dancing dogs and clowns on stilts. At the center of the mini-circus, a beaming Speaker Newt Gingrich shared a ring with a 14,762-lb. elephant named King Tusk. Touching off what would become a daylong stampede of inevitable jokes, the Speaker announced that...
...hang together as a novel. Chabon seems to be winking at friends: Look, here's a ridiculous bit in which Tripp gets the dean of students pregnant. And here's Miss Sloviak, the transvestite, and here's Tripp's car with a dead dog and a tuba in the trunk. Some of this is worth a smile, some a raised eyebrow, but let's agree with Chabon's publisher that he has actually written his third book. Now, about that fourth: well, maybe an old guy, far out in the Gulf Stream, who catches this huge fish...
...most potent advocates in the Texas debate has been Suzanna Gratia, who watched helplessly as a deranged gunman executed 23 people--including her parents--at a cafeteria in the town of Killeen four years ago. At the time, Gratia's own .38-cal. was lying in the trunk of her car because she was obeying the current concealed-weapons law, "the stupidest mistake of my entire life...
...federal regulation. Both were arrested for carrying concealed weapons. Then three more men drove up to the office, and one opened his coat to display a holstered pistol. All three were jailed. Finally, two men waiting in a nearby car (guns and cash were later found in its trunk) were forced out of their vehicle and jailed. One turned out to be John Trochmann, co-founder of the Militia of Montana, an armed, conspiracy-loving group opposed to "one-world government" and the federal bureaucracy...
...least have the rainbow in sight. During the past year, U.S. companies have been streaming into the multimedia business, and the optimists among them expect to see gold glittering soon. By one U.S. estimate, business on the information highway--from providing video-on-demand to building fiber-optic trunk lines--will in 10 to 15 years generate $300 billion annually for software and computer makers, cable-TV and telephone companies, publishers and catalog houses. ``The Japanese want to get in on it, but they are a bit confused,'' says Roger Mathus, executive director of the U.S. Semiconductor Association in Japan...