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Word: trunkful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...courtroom drew their guns and killed the lawyer. A few minutes later, in a luggage shop in downtown Detroit, the owner and his clerk were discovered neatly trussed and executed, apparently in a robbery. A little after that, a prominent black psychiatrist was found dead in the trunk of his car. And still later that evening, police in the suburb of Roseville came across the bodies of a pair of young lovers in a car, victims of a murder-suicide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Murder City | 4/16/1973 | See Source »

...insult to injury. Spotting a black walnut tree near a house, they noticed that the residents were not at home. In felling the towering tree, however, they sent it crashing onto the house, causing $2,000 in damage. Undaunted, they cut off the top of the tree, took the trunk and left the mess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Tree Rustlers | 4/16/1973 | See Source »

...rose and fell with events. Early in the week, both sides had seemed close to resolving their differences-until Russell Means' brother Bill was wounded in a firefight. When the car transporting him to the hospital was stopped at a roadblock, federal authorities discovered Molotov cocktails in the trunk and arrested the Indians. Incensed, Russell Means crammed his people into a small community hall the next morning to fire them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROTEST: A Suspenseful Show of Red Power | 3/19/1973 | See Source »

...give up the subsidy will be an incentive for the CAB to award Allegheny the Atlanta routes, but other airlines may oppose the move _ particularly Delta, which is based in Atlanta. If Barnes wins he pledges that on Jan. 1, 1975, his line will "request formal designation as a trunk carrier" -the first line to gain that distinction since Trans-Caribbean Airways was so designated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIRLINES: Allegheny's Ascent | 3/5/1973 | See Source »

...bellow for a hangman's society and leads them on to the slaughter with "Dem Bones" -- the first instance where the vaudevillian flavor leaves a sour after-taste (that is made still less delectable by a tasteless little shot of the fox, smugly relieving himself on a tree trunk. Is this Jack pissing in the face of society...

Author: By Alice VAN Buren, | Title: The Mad Prince of Privilege | 3/5/1973 | See Source »

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