Word: trunkful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Research Bureau (S.R.B.), a sadistic crew of sports-shirted killers who wear dark glasses even at night and seem to have carte blanche to kill. They will flag down a car in broad daylight in downtown Kampala and drag the terrified driver out and lock him in the car trunk, then drive the car away, all in full view of passive onlookers who know better than to protest or intervene. Not a single person bundled off in this manner has ever been seen alive again. A day or two later, the body, badly bloated and mutilated by fish and crocodiles...
Leaving his home early last week, the hulking Cowan did exactly that. He carefully loaded the trunk of his red '71 Pontiac GTO with a Sako .308 rifle, four pistols and bandoleers of ammunition. Then he drove to the Neptune terminal two blocks away and parked outside the main entrance. "Somebody said that Freddie was outside putting on guns," a Neptune worker recalled later. "We thought it was a joke...
...Harvard-Epworth Church brings us a must for anyone who takes his film expertise seriously--a collection of early Lumiere brother shorts shot between 1895 and 1900 in Europe. Brought together under the title The Lumiere Years, these shorts apparently turned up after seventy years sitting in a trunk in the loft of an abandoned garage in Southern France. The shots of the Paris Exposition, the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II and a film of President McKinley preparing to invade Cuba constitute some of America's earliest documentary by two of movies' first greats...
After making a bad bet on the horses in the London of 1820, a reckless dandy named Scrope Berdmore Davies crammed his personal papers into a trunk, stashed it in a bank vault and skipped the country. Doing a spot of housecleaning at the Pall Mall branch of Barclays Bank the other day, officials opened the unclaimed trunk and turned up one of the literary finds of the century. Among the treasures: an original copy of the third canto of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, by Davies' pal Lord Byron; early manuscripts of Hymn to Intellectual Beauty and Mont...
...small jump and found himself staring at an eight foot drop. He told himself to relax and enjoy the ride and began to project his trajectory when he noticed a fallen tree resting on its branches directly in his path. He slammed into it at full speed, the trunk hitting him in mid-thigh. He, too, managed to ski away with only severe bruises. He skis...