Word: trunkful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...airlines have been reeling from a combination punch: their costly, shiny new jumbo jets arrived just as a recession cut back the predicted increase in air travel. Last year the U.S. trunk carriers ran up a total loss of $179 million; TWA alone went some $60 million into the red. As always when in trouble, the airlines resorted to a wide-ranging exploration of merger possibilities-the classic, though not always successful industry device for rescuing the flounderers. Some carriers have already reached merger agreements. Currently pending before the Civil Aeronautics Board are three proposed consolidations that could strongly affect...
Installation of the pump was intricate business. Shanks, who was near death, was wheeled into the operating room at 7:15 p.m. Doctors opened his chest and slit the descending aorta, the downward trunk of the main artery leading from the heart. They then sewed the booster directly into the aorta, led the air hose out through the chest and connected it to the exterior tank. The procedure took five hours, but it was not until 5 a.m. that Shanks left the operating room; Kantrowitz kept him there until he was certain that the booster was doing...
...violent. Today's newspaper battle is less bloody but scarcely less frantic. Circulation campaigns are fought with radio and TV spots instead of hired toughs, and an exclusive is more often a series of sober public service articles about mental health than a blaring bannerline scoop about a trunk murder. But Chicago remains the only U.S. city with competing papers in both morning and afternoon...
...Objective: Girls. He arrived at Esalen in a silver Corvette. In the trunk, as Miller tells it, were "a properly scuffed Florentine leather suitcase, a gray-green but charmingly ineffective Olivetti, and a Cardin-imitation blue blazer bought at Barney's." Miller was to participate in Esalen's curriculum as a member of one of its residential programs. But his first objective was girls. Martha, Catherine, Sandra, Lorraine-all proved cooperative. What Miller did not count on was thai his sex life would become data for encounter sessions. Catherine told Martha that she did not enjoy going...
...were more than half blocked. Your legs are unsteady. Your pace falters. You stumble on the mossy ground, and trip on the fallen brushwood. Instead of being pleased to be making some headway, escaping perhaps, you are glad only of a halt when you can lean against a tree trunk and catch your breath...