Word: trunkful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Trujillo, Generalissimo Doctor Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina. 69, Benefactor of the Fatherland, Rebuilder of the Financial Independence of the Republic, Father of the New Fatherland, Chief Protector of the Dominican Working Class, Genius of Peace, was gone, his body, grotesquely disfigured by 27 bullet wounds, stuffed in the trunk of the soon-to-be-abandoned car belonging to a disgruntled general named Juan Tomás Diaz. Outlived among the world's strongmen by Portugal's milder Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, Trujillo had been the model for every tinpot, medal-jingling dictator that ever rifled a Latin American...
...sunshine girl was not born in a trunk, but in Deadwood. S. Dak. As a child she dressed up in pillowcase sheaths with her little sister (now a housewife in Montrose, Calif.) and learned the Charleston. At the University of Washington, she majored in drama, minored in mononucleosis, got elected princess of this and that-later, it was to be "Queen of Better Drive-Ins"-and handed out quiz prizes for a local TV station. Two years ago, Dorothy began looking pretty for Warner Bros, at $500 a week. In her first TV series, The Alaskans, she played opposite...
Smith laid the major blame for the airlines' straits on the Civil Aeronautics Board for its "lavishness" in awarding new routes to "needy" trunk airlines. This policy, said Smith, hurts the bigger airlines while seldom helping the feeders. Smith recommends instead more mergers to benefit the public, such as the merger that joined Capital and United Airlines. But CAB last week announced that it has decided to go slow on approving future mergers. Main reason for allowing Capital to merge with United, said CAB, was that there was no other way to keep Capital operating...
Matilda's Trunk. The Battle of Belgrave Square proved a victory of sorts for the minicabs' cause. The spectacle of big taxis ganging up on a tiny minicab aroused Londoners' traditional sympathy for the underdog, as well as delight at the prospect of cheaper fares. Almost every one had a story about a rude old-style cabby who took him to his destination the long way round, or short-changed him, or passively watched as dear old Aunt Matilda wrestled with her steamer trunk. "That's the public for you," lamented a veteran cabby...
...hours' interrogation, Raymond Rolland fainted, was revived with smelling salts, and then confessed. Pierre Larcher soon confessed too. Frogmen dove into the Seine and recovered the Hermes typewriter where Raymond said he had thrown it; the last $11,500 of the ransom money was found locked in the trunk of Larcher's Fiat...