Word: trunkful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bushy tree . . . with a short and usually crooked trunk . . . stout spreading rigid branches beset with slender spine-like branchlets, bright red and glabrous when they first appear, soon turning green, and in their first winter grey tinged with red, covered with a slight bloom . . . and ultimately dark brown tinged with...
...field of fancy. The clergyman, in his spare hours, may be winning battles, the farmer sailing ships, the banker reaping triumphs in the arts: all leading another life, plying another trade from what they chose. . . . To look at the man is but to court deception. We shall see the trunk from which he draws his nourishment; but he himself is above and abroad in the green dome of foliage, hummed through by winds and nested in by nightingales...
...future mate for Mandjullah, an older female. Rapidly he became the zoo's star attraction and the pride of his keeper, Hans Rietmann. When Mandjullah took the kids for a ride on her back, Chang trundled awkwardly behind, amiably accepting peanuts. Sometimes he would even snuggle his trunk into a pocket to pluck out a piece of candy...
Hans Rietmann had no fear. On Christmas Eve, he entered the pit by himself. When he tried to fasten the chains around the elephant's hind legs, Chang turned and swept him up in his trunk...
Light-Fingered. In Des Moines, Ann Baity admitted to awestruck police that she had shoplifted a radio-phonograph and a wardrobe trunk...