Word: trunkful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Soon after police in Winston-Salem, N.C., were notified last December that a 1973 Fiat had been stolen, they found the car stuck in the mud off a country road. Missing were the battery, a tape player and a black footlocker that had been in the trunk. The case looked routine until a few days later when children walking on a roadside a few miles away found the footlocker with its lock broken and its contents-papers and notebooks-scattered through the underbrush. Last week the Justice Department disclosed that the documents included top secret copies of communications between Washington...
Despite his fear of the Russians, the Shah receives extensive aid from the U.S.S.R. By Soviet count, 134 projects have been launched with Moscow's help, among them metallurgical plants, engineering facilities and a trans-Iranian trunk gas pipeline. Last March the Soviets built a new blast furnace at Isfahan; new smelting and rolling mills will follow soon. All told, these projects are claimed to account for the production of 90% of all coal in Iran, almost 90% of the iron ore and 70% of the steel...
...days after the breakin, Mendell, who according to one investigator had been "running from pillar to post" in an attempt to hide from Big Tuna's wrath, disappeared. His body turned up six weeks later in the trunk of an Oldsmobile on Chicago's South Side. His arms had been bound, his neck slashed and a rope tied next to the wound to slow the flow of blood. Explained one investigator: "They forced him to watch himself bleed to death...
...Bernard Ryan, 34, an adept burglar thought to be part of the gang, was found shot to death in a car in suburban Stone Park. Two weeks later police discovered the mutilated body of Garcia in the trunk of a car at a motel near Chicago's O'Hare Airport. A fourth jewel thief associated with the gang, John McDonald, 43, was shot to death in a North Side alley in April...
...time warp, transported back ten years to an old campaign. He found a crowd of 1,000; some of them had waited for three hours in 90° heat. They wore Nixon campaign buttons; some lugged his 1,120-page memoirs, the size of a small steamer trunk, hoping to get an autograph from the last President they truly and fully liked. "He should get around the country more and speak out," a local Republican committeewoman said with wistful truculence. "Other Presidents have done as bad as he ever did." But a friend of hers was not so sure...