Word: trunkful
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...enjoying the freshly packed powder at Zermatt when the most interesting woodland creature caught my eye. Unfortunately I also caught a tree trunk with the side of my neck, breaking my clavicle...
...chairman's dog, who bit Douglas on the leg. The wound has become infected. Douglas limps through the slush of a Pittsburgh winter, dressed in his former wife's pink chenille bathrobe. He hasn't shaved in three days. He drives around stoned, with the murdered dog in the trunk of a car, which he believes to be his but which was stolen from a man with a James Brown hairdo...
...year-old male calf is playing with a long, stringy tuft of grass. He opens his mouth as if to eat it, but his trunk moves in the wrong direction, and the grass pokes him in the eye. Moss laughs. "He doesn't want to eat. He's too little," she says. "He's just practicing." After a few minutes, a 10-year-old female elephant walks toward us. She plops in front of the car and uses her trunk to hurl dust over her back. Crossing her back legs, she leans forward as if to kneel. Her tusks...
...charge $155.36 in groceries ($6.86 verified total savings), help load the bags into his trunk and say goodbye. Two days after the interview I get the call I had been expecting. DiCaprio intends to send me a two-page fax, restating some of the themes he wanted to state in the article. Paragraph six includes excerpts from the Lonely Planet's guide to Thailand, saying how The Beach didn't cause environmental damage to the Thai island they filmed on. Paragraph five includes the sentence "The carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere is having disastrous and irreparable effects...
...genuine emotion, as at the wrenching yet warmly comic climax, when Eggers discovers the box of his mother's remains on a visit home and drives out to scatter them on Lake Michigan. "My eyes blur. I shake. I want to put the box somewhere else--in the trunk maybe--but know that I can't...She would f____ing kill...