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Word: trunkful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...college barometer, the Christmas season had begun. I grumbled and continued on my way. Despite my grumbling, as I walked I got to thinking that the holidays really were just around the corner. That night I pulled my red and green one piece pajamas out of the trunk under my bed. It was the first time holiday cheer had appeared in my dorm room in a very long time, and I decided it was time to bring it back...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Little Holiday Spirit Goes a Long Way | 12/3/1996 | See Source »

...subway station he was met by a man who walked with him toward a taxi stand, where they were met by a car with the diplomatic plates of the Russian embassy, all in full view of his FBI tail. After Nicholson threw a camera bag into the trunk and got into the back seat, the car drove away. The affidavit notes drily: "This meeting with Russian nationals was not authorized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEACHER OR TRAITOR | 12/2/1996 | See Source »

Crowley says one clue to a stolen car is a missing trunk lock...

Author: By Courtney A. Coursey, | Title: A Night in the Life of Harvard Police Officers | 11/9/1996 | See Source »

...palmtop computers now allows doctors like Bayne to take their healing arts out of the hospital and onto the road. The result: fully functional EKG machines no bigger than a box of chocolates; blood-sample analyzers no larger than a princess phone; portable ultrasound machines that fit in the trunk of a car. There is even a hand-held mri scanner in the works that is about the size and shape of a catcher's mitt. And last week the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a paperback-size automatic defibrillator that can shock a stopped heart back into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POCKET-SIZE MEDICINE | 9/23/1996 | See Source »

...Graham picked Jones up at 10:30 p.m. for what she thought was a date. Zamora lurked in the trunk, tilting the rear seat forward just enough to see Graham behind the wheel. After the car slowed to a halt on a lonely road near the lake, he motioned to Zamora, who clambered into the passenger compartment screaming at Jones. Graham lunged to try to break Jones' neck with a twisting motion. "I realized too late that all those quick, painless snaps seen in the movies," he wrote in a self-typed confession obtained by the Dallas Morning News, "were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCHOOLS FOR SCANDAL | 9/23/1996 | See Source »

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