Word: trunkful
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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...
...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...
...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...
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...
...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...