Word: trunk
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...Usually in the trunk of a car or quite often in a secret compartment built under the bed of the truck and bolted in. They would come in, and they'd take this wide plastic tape, shipping tape, and they'd tape you up. Then they would wrap a towel around your head this way and over your eyes. You were just like a mummy...
Will and his house were more interesting than the discussion of direct gain and thermal performance. The whole first floor of the house was one open living area, from bedroom to kitchen, and a fireplace rises from the center of the room. The fireplace and chimney are a twisting, trunk-like work of masonry, made of brick with veins of rocks cutting through. Picture an old gnarled oak tree, substitute brick and stone for the wood, and you have an idea what the fireplace looks like...
Television cannot convey the awkwardness and impossibility of an elephant standing on its head. After all, an elephant that climbs onto a small table, or an elephant holding a woman in its trunk, is still unmistakably an elephant. But an elephant that rolls forward, shoots its hind legs up, plants the head, and stays vertical looks like a pudgy younger brother showing...
...Phil) Leonetti, who was scheduled to testify in the January trial against Gotti and Gravano. According to a five- page debriefing obtained by TIME, Leonetti told federal agents in late 1989 about the 1981 Valentine's Day murder of gangster Frank Stillitano, whose body had been found in the trunk of a rental car. Leonetti said members of the Philadelphia crime family had met with Gravano and other Gambino mobsters at Bally's Park Place Casino in Atlantic City, where they reached an agreement that the Philadelphia group would kill Stillitano as a favor to the New York faction. After...
...Jeanne Bernkopf, one of Manhattan's most experienced free-lance editors, Scarlett still needs a story stronger than girl chases boy. The excessive number of extended and inconclusive family gatherings recalls Mitchell's comment in Gone With the Wind: "When a Southerner took the trouble to pack a trunk and travel 20 miles for a visit, the visit was seldom of shorter duration than a month." Scarlett could also use a dose of Joyce Carol Oates' gothic intensity...