Word: trunkful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With a tall, slender trunk and a ragged umbrella of drooping green leaves, it looks like a mimosa. But the tropical Leucaena leucocephala is a bit different from other trees: in tropical climates it grows as high as 65 ft. in five years. That makes it a prime candidate for reforestation projects in overlumbered and wood-short Third World countries. The tree is also sort of a botanical schmoo;* undemanding itself, it provides a bountiful array of foods and fuels...
...morning darkness one day last week, they ended a crime spree that may put Mullins, 26, in the record book. It all began, according to the police, when Mullins stopped a teen-age driver in downtown Miami, relieved him of his valuables, stuffed him in the car trunk and headed for Jackson Memorial Hospital. There he grabbed a nurse and pushed her into the car, but the woman slid out the opposite door before he could drive off. By now police radios all over the city were crackling: Look out for a white Dodge Dart with an arm protruding from...
...August a Dresden family stole a plane; though none of them had ever flown before, they managed to steer the craft across the border to a safe crash landing. Earlier this month, a driver assigned to U.S. Ambassador to East Germany David Bolen hid his family in the trunk of the envoy's official car, drove uninspected through "Checkpoint Charlie" and got political asylum in West Berlin...
...raised as a gentleman and sent off to Harvard. In his early 60s, after an on-and-off career in Government service, he finds himself buried in an obscure job with the Nixon White House. So remote is his office that it becomes the perfect hiding place for a trunk containing a million dollars in unlaundered bills. Starbuck is sent off to a minimum-security prison in Georgia, the least heralded co-conspirator in all of Watergate. He muses later: "It was like being in a wonderful musical comedy where the critics mentioned everybody but me." No sooner...
...money just a few years ago for my place in Somerset County," says Richard Pendel, a Pittsburgh steelworker, "and I'll be damned if I'll let those oil companies destroy my investment." Pendel's dangerous solution: to stash extra gasoline in the trunk of his car. Hardware and auto supply stores across the country report a run on gas cans, and in Texas drivers are installing special surplus tanks in their pickup trucks and recreational vehicles...