Word: trunkful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...road back to Moscow that the KGB men spotted the field of lilacs and filled the trunk of one of the autos with them. When they came to a town, one of the officers suggested to Giselle that she buy some food for her husband. "He'll need it where he's going," said the KGB man solicitously...
...reality is grimmer. On hot summer days, the smog level in the San Bernardino forest can reach .5 ppm. The average is .20 to .25 - enough to reduce photosynthesis by 66% . In turn, this impedes the flow of protective pitch with in the tree, allowing pests to attack its trunk with near impunity...
...whole system of justice is steadily drifting toward pursuing the innocent law-abiding citizen simply because he is a docile cooperative quarry. Now I am told that if someone incompetent parks in my trunk or brings my grillwork crashing around my skull, my insurance company should cover it [March...
...boorishness of the second clown, which had always grated on the audience, here expresses the tension and guilt operating on the hero at the moment that the collision occurs. He accuses and reviles our bourgeois hero, generating a crowd and a cop, who tries to open the car trunk in which the hero has hidden a corpse. While this threat of exposure is specific, the situation is more significant as a direct metaphor for the hero's emotional state. People surround him pointing and shouting; the possibility of escape decreases with every second. In an earlier Chabrol the metaphor would...