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Word: trunk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...went to the trunk and found the spare, jack and that wrench thingy that can double as a murder weapon in times of emergency. I had learned how to do this all a while back, but apart from the fact that the jack goes somewhere under the car and is somehow made to lift the car up, I didn't remember much. So I consulted the owner's manual, which is of course written, or rather drawn, in such a way that, whenever possible, coherent sentences are substituted with a shoddy drawing...

Author: By Daniel B. Baer, | Title: The Lessons Harvard Hasn't Taught Me | 3/2/1999 | See Source »

...Einhorn, wearing blue jeans and a tunic made by Flodin, strolled into the Bordeaux courtroom Sept. 2 as if there had never been a body in the trunk or a pack of hounds on his trail or 16 years on the lam. He looked healthy, untroubled, his face ruddy. He played with a silver goatee and casually acknowledged Flodin, who smiled from the back of the courtroom, wearing a bright layered getup that looked as if it were stolen from the closet of Pippi Longstocking. The Unicorn had had a long time to write himself a new speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Capture of the Unicorn | 2/19/1999 | See Source »

...been nearly 20 years since Philadelphia police, clued in by the awful smell, found the remains of Holly Maddux inside a steamer trunk in Einhorn's apartment. The Unicorn, as he liked to call himself, maintained his innocence -- and then went on the lam as a court prepared to try him for the grisly murder. Sometimes just hours ahead of police, Einhorn moved around Europe for 16 years. In that time, Holly Maddux's parents died, a court convicted the Unicorn of the crime in absentia, and one detective doggedly continued to press the case. And one fine June morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Capture of the Unicorn | 2/19/1999 | See Source »

...Purr (Charlotte Roldan, a former Miss Teen USA), on her birthday and plan to surprise her with some innocent fun. However, their version of kidnapping includes shoving a namesake of the movie, a jawbreaker, into her mouth, covering her mouth with duct tape and tossing her into the trunk of a car. Ever so suprisingly, when they open the trunk Liz has choked to death on the sweet candy...

Author: By Annie K. Zaleski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Jawbreaker Leaves a Sour Taste | 2/19/1999 | See Source »

...your hands to scoop up sleep as you would draw a grain of water and the forest will come: a green cloud a birch trunk like a chord of light and a thousand eyelids fluttering with forgotten leafy speech then you will recall the white morning when you waited for the opening of the gates...

Author: By Benjamin E. Lytal, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Zbigniew H. Dies, a Master | 2/12/1999 | See Source »

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