Word: trunkful
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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...