Word: trunkful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...After writing more than 200 songs with indifferent success, Cory was approached in 1961 by Singer Tony Bennett, who needed a number to highlight a San Francisco engagement and salvage a fading career. Cory and his lyricist partner Douglass Cross pulled a dusty, eight-year-old tune from their trunk and the trio made a fortune...
...three blue-and-white police cars surveyed the passing traffic. Two blocks away, in the opposite direction, uniformed border police, pressed into special service, manned a roadblock and checked every tenth car or so. They concentrated on large vehicles, whose drivers were made to show identification while the trunk was searched. Every few hundred yards more police, more roadblocks, more searches extended the tight security blanket over the entire Trionfale district...
...Correspondent Dean Brelis reported, "the exodus of Lebanese from the area was both enormous and pitiful. As many as 200,000 people fled their homes, clogging the roads heading north toward Beirut. On the coastal highway, tractors pulled wagons filled with livestock; children could be seen riding in the trunks of crowded automobiles, sitting with the open trunk doors curving over their heads like umbrellas. At Aadloun, a town well north of the Litani River, two Mercedes taxis packed with families fleeing the fighting were ambushed by an Israeli reconnaissance party; men, women and children?14 in all?were slaughtered...
Police have questioned Matlick about eleven checks that cleared her bank account after she disappeared, including one for $3,000 that was made out to him. The checks were not signed in Mrs. Brach's normal handwriting. Matlick told police that her hand had been hurt when a trunk lid fell on it, and she could only scrawl. Oddest of all, Matlick failed for nearly two weeks to report that Mrs. Brach was missing. During that time, he says, he summoned her brother Charles Vorhees, a retired railroad worker, to the estate, where they burned two of Mrs. Brach...
Otis empties out the trunk...