Word: trunkful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...England's most unpredictable football outfits in the giant New Haven saucer fluds the gentlemen of the press box in their usual position concerning the outcome. A small but hardy band is way out on a limb stringing along with the Crimson, while the more conservative elements hug the trunk of the arbor prognosticoris and give the Bulldog a slim but definite hug the trunk of the arbor prognosticoris and give the Bulldog a slim but definite margin...
...Wagah, a little town on the grand trunk highway between Amritsar and Lahore on the Pakistan side of the border, armed Baluchi troops, all certified Moslems from the frontier territory of Baluchistan, called a loud halt to travelers trying to go through the border. A mile down the road, at Atari, armed Dogras, who are a Punjabi Hindu tribe, searched and checked all Pakistan-bound vehicles. The mile between the two posts was no man's land. On the Pakistan side, just behind an improvised guardhouse, a bulldozer was digging graves for Moslem bodies which arrived from the India...
...acute alcoholism; in a Pittsburgh hotel bathtub. When in 1935 oil-heir husband William Hale Harkness Jr. died of cancer in Shanghai, spunky Manhattan Dress Designer Ruth promptly sailed off to continue his interrupted giant panda hunt, found a one-pound baby panda nestled in a Tibetan tree trunk, brought it back to Chicago's Brookfield...
...complete justice to the quirky beliefs of backwoods Americans in western Missouri and Arkansas. In this book, the quirks are set down as fact, exhaustively and entertainingly, by an Ozark scholar who has lived in the mountains for 30 years and kept a card file that eventually filled a trunk. He writes without condescension and also without the solemn intensity of the sociologist. Some of the Ozark signs and sayings he found...
...opinion a woman of the streets. The girl got her car into gear, backed it out, drove ahead of the Buick and then went into reverse. There was a horrible crunch, but she had aimed badly. Now her Oldsmobile had a big hole in the trunk; the Buick was intact...