Word: trunkful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ordered workmen to build temporary housing to accommodate the 6,000 dignitaries he expects from all over the world. Six weeks hence, when the guests gather in a field outside the town, the torch will be touched, and the old King, in his gilded coffin carved from a sandalwood trunk chosen by the bonzes as predestined to receive the royal body, will go up in scented smoke...
...that holds gas and roar south. In recent years, more than 20,000 of these "migratory shirkers" have settled for the two-week season in Fort Lauderdale, and there the camera finds them-soaking up sun and beer, sleeping twelve to a motel cell or two to a car trunk, and assiduously playing the great American game of "separating the girls from the Girl Scouts...
...Canadian economy. Many businessmen, particularly oilmen, who need big chunks of investment capital, argue that Canadians do not have the funds to finance major projects themselves. Calgary's Oilweek trade bible cited as a typical case a nearly completed, $90 million financing by Canadian-owned Alberta Gas Trunk Line Co. Ltd. for a pipeline-gathering system. Since that kind of risk capital is simply not available in Canada, Alberta Gas Trunk will probably still have to turn to the U.S. money market and pay 6.3% interest instead of 51% to compensate...
While politics is always the trunk line, his humor ranges everywhere. Crazes craze him. His masterpiece on hi-fi ends with a family living in their garage and using the house as a speaker. When he read that people were daubing themselves with instant skin tan, he moaned: "If you can't believe in the sun, what can you believe in?" Psychoanalytic clichés are seldom spared. Once, says Sahl, a bank robber slipped the teller a note saying: "Give me your money and act normal." The teller replied: "First you must define your terms. After all, what...
...morning of June 24, two of the plotters parked a green 1954 Oldsmobile on the road Betancourt would take to at tend the Venezuelan Armed Forces Day ceremony. They placed two green suitcases, loaded with 60 lbs. of ammonium-nitrate dynamite and a radio receiver, in the trunk, hooked up the detonating receiver. When Betancourt's car passed, one of the plotters, standing 200 yards away, pressed a button inside the brown overnight case and the Olds exploded...