Word: trunkful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world of caged, frustrated animals. The letter is in the form of a draft for a film script about circus elephants. They are taught to dance by Choreographer George Balanchine but are shamed by being made huge fools of. "Later that night the wisest of them, extending his trunk, licks up a dying cigar butt, and drops it in fresh straw. All 36 elephants die in the fire. Their huge souls, light as clouds, settle like doves, in the great secret cemetery back in Africa-and perhaps God speaks, tenderly...
...wife rammed a telephone pole. Kohler was convicted of public intoxication, his wife of drunken driving. Worse yet, it turned out that Kohler's briefcase, containing two secret documents that he had removed from State Department files without permission, was locked in the auto's trunk at the time of the accident. Kohler was reprimanded by the State Department, suspended without pay for 30 days, dropped from his job on the prestigious Policy Planning Staff and shipped off to Turkey...
...Trunk. Newsboy's current address is the State Prison at Trenton, where he is serving a two-to-three-year sentence on a gambling conviction (his third). Last week, despite the prison bars, Newsboy's money losing continued. This time a fortune was at stake. Walking into Newsboy's cell, the county prosecutor announced: "You've just lost $2½ million.'' Back in Jersey City, two carpenters working on an ancient garage had pried open the trunk of an abandoned 1947 Plymouth sedan. Inside they found a cache of several guns and a small...
...Knowles also had some injuries to his left hand. The surgeons encased the boy's trunk and right arm in a cast that held the arm in a bent position, as though to ward off a blow. Still anesthetized, the boy was wheeled to a second operating theater. There, surgeons straightened out his battered left hand and sewed up its skin wounds. Ev Knowles received four more pints of blood during the multiple operations, which lasted eight hours...
Last week, Cicero Bookie Peter J. Bludeau, 50, was found stuffed in the trunk of another-his own 1959 Cadillac. He had been strangled with a wire, stabbed, kicked and beaten; he was left lying face up with a penny on his throat and his pockets turned out-standard gangster ceremonial for a stoolie. A fellow gambler, Harry A. Polay, 64, who was scheduled to testify before the Cook County grand jury, presumably to blow the whistle on syndicate gambling, has been missing since March...