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Word: trunked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Among Buddha's 150,000,000 followers word was spreading last week, however, that the sacred Bo was withering, and the prognosis looked bad. Adoring pilgrims knew only one thing to do: as generations of them had done before, they poured gallons of milk around its trunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Sacred Bo | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

...moored by the feet atop the Broad Street marquee of the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel. He was a 15-ft. balloon-rubber elephant with an upraised trunk, a flapping lower lip and a silly smile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: The Big Show | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

...most disappointing early news concerned his hide: lighted cigarettes, dropped from upper windows, had no effect on him. But he obligingly developed a kind of reverse elephantiasis. His trunk took to sagging, and he had to be given repeated injections of air with a vacuum cleaner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: The Big Show | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

Charles Jackson has written six novels; only three (including The Lost Weekend and The Fall of Valor) have been published. His latest should have stayed in the trunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lost Effort | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

...first. Partisan General Luigi Longo sneered: What about the Boy Scouts and the uniformed Catholic girls of the Children of Mary organization? But next day the partisans executed a disciplined about-face. They promised compliance. Except when the police (i.e., Scelba) permitted, the uniforms would stay in the trunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Very Negation | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

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