Word: trunkful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ticket for the privilege of shivering in a slow-moving lift line to ascend slowly a hill that they will quickly slide down. Or to careen down a narrow, bumpy trail in a blinding snowstorm, watching for the hidden icy spot that could send them crashing into a tree trunk. The explanation is simple. Skiing is a feast for all the senses. It promises exhilaration, fresh air and muscle-taxing exercise; an hour of downhill skiing can burn up as many as 500 calories. Gisa Wagner, 34, a New Yorker raised in Bavaria, echoes a thousand similar rhapsodies. "There...
...around as the service ends. All those buckets of money march down front and Reverend Ike takes one of his quick, practiced glances at his diamond watch. While the people file out he climbs into his favorite Rolls, the two-tone rose one with a rose painted on the trunk, and heads for his next stop...
...guys with the News?" asked the driver. The Crimson thieves replied to the affirmative, got the stuck of papers and promptly placed them in the trunk of their...
...Ugandan airport, had been stopped by soldiers and slowly cut to death with machete-like panga knives. A businessman said that he left hurriedly after both his partners in a gas-station chain were stopped while carrying the week's receipts into Kampala, put into the trunk of a car and driven to a village where they were hanged...
Easily the world's biggest airline, Aeroflot expects to carry 80 million passengers this year over its 350 trunk routes and 1,000 local services. Westerners find some practices disconcerting. For instance, the line commonly overbooks, and sometimes on domestic flights extra passengers squeeze aboard as standees. The possibility of overloading is increased by Aeroflot's habitual failure to check the weight of hand baggage. Soviet passengers often have as much stashed under their seats and in the overhead racks as they do in the baggage hold...