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Word: trunkful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alaska four times, and must have done a lot of research, too: her book is very knowing about such matters as parkas, salmon fishing and Gold Rush prostitutes. She also makes an emotional and just plea for Alaskan statehood. But decades of panning fictional gold (Show Boat, Saratoga Trunk) have taught canny Prospector Ferber where to find the pay lode. Her heroine, Christine Storm, is beautiful enough to still the growl of a Malemute, so passionate about her native Alaska that she would not swap a fox parka for an autumn-haze mink. Grandpa Kennedy is a tycoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Igloo Reading | 3/31/1958 | See Source »

THUNDERBIRD SOFT TOP that will fold back into trunk like Ford's automatically retractable hardtop, will be put out by Ford this spring. Unlike hardtop convertible, new four-seater Thunderbird wi'l be only semiautomatic, require driver to lower trunk himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Feb. 10, 1958 | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

...closing the trunk, and looking at his car) Sure, what the hell. This thing will probably be here all winter anyway. (They walk...

Author: By Walter E. Wilson, | Title: Street Scene | 1/14/1958 | See Source »

...haven't. (pause) Say, I've got a nice new pair of chains in the trunk. Wife gave them to me for Christmas. Would you like to see them...

Author: By Walter E. Wilson, | Title: Street Scene | 1/14/1958 | See Source »

Pass: I think I would at that. (The man gets out of his car, and the two go around the car, open the trunk, and examine the chains...

Author: By Walter E. Wilson, | Title: Street Scene | 1/14/1958 | See Source »

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