Word: trunkful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...upper jaw of the Soviet crunch reached far behind Minsk and cut the railroad to Vilna; the lower jaw snapped the trunk line to Warsaw near Baranowicze. Minsk fell, trapping an estimated 150,000 more Germans. Swarms of Red bombers blasted the roads to Vilna and Koenigsberg, to Bialystok and Brest-Litovsk...
...pipe-smoking Samuel (for Clemens) Charles (for his father) Webster of Manhattan. His helper was his tiny, chipper, 91-year-old mother, Sam Clemens' niece and his favorite youngster during his Mississippi pilot days. Mrs. Webster saved the 500-odd letters through the years -literally in an attic trunk...
...iron or steel to spare for this vital industry. Her engineers turned to the ways and the tools of their forebears. They fashioned derricks and drills from lashed timbers. They wove rope from split bamboo. For pipelines, snaking over the land from well to refinery, they used the hollow trunk of the bamboo...
Comedy was just once out of the top drawer (The Voice of the Turtle), just once out of the second drawer (Over 21). Otherwise it was mostly out of a musty old trunk in the attic. There was not one really good farce, fantasy, thriller. Musicals made the season's biggest splash, but their finest sounds were familiar ones: the brilliant Bizet music in the all-Negro Carmen Jones, the lovely Lehar waltzes of The Merry Widow. Possibly barring One Touch of Venus, musicomedy failed to produce a single decent score, and nowhere produced even a halfway decent book...
...mile long Peiping-Hankow Railroad. The Chinese had removed the rails and ruined the rail bed, but the ambitious Japanese may hope to rebuild the key line. Then a similar campaign could be launched to the south, to seize the Hankow-Canton railway. A 1,522-mile trunk railroad, spanning China's length from the Yellow to the South China Sea, would be worth a million tons of shipping to Japan...