Word: trunk
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While he participated in group "find the bird" meetings, though, Vellucci kept Ibis hidden in the trunk of his car. After a month, he called the Lampoon and told them he had found the Ibis, but insisted that they pick it up at The Crimson office, an act which he says was a terrific blow to the Lampoon's pride...
...addition to the organized resistance, many Kuwaitis operated on their own. Since Iraqi soldiers examining cars at checkpoints frequently stole whatever was in sight, some Kuwaitis added rat poison to bottles of orange juice and then hid them in the trunk. Iraqi sentries would discover and seize the bottles -- and presumably drink the tainted liquid later...
Since then, Lampy members have strained their puny intellects thinking of ways to get rid of the sturdy trunk and graceful branches that obscured the building's view of Elsie's. Compers were asked to invent unique techniques for destroying nature's beauty. Lampoon officers made an annual tradition of asking the city arborist to remove the tree...
...night spots in a Rolls-Royce driven by a young Hispanic. This was a mistake Bennett repeated: he made himself too visible. He even drove up to a South Central car wash in his Mercedes-Benz to boast to bystanders, "I got more keys ((kilos of cocaine)) in my trunk than you all got clothes on your back...
...Communist Party in Vietnam is like a big tree. But the roots are loose, and the trunk is hollow. There are people within the party who realize that the challenge is not how to maintain the tree, but how to make it fall in a way that will cause the least damage...