Word: trunkful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...part of the work, and within it -- always a wide, heavily molded, dark construction, its inner edges toned so that a white glow seems to be emanating from the picture itself -- one catches a glimpse of, say, a broad horizon, a band of achingly pure and silent sky, the trunk of a pine. The frame becomes a prison for a sign of traditional vastness, the 19th century view of limitless America. But look closer and the ideal landscape is fatally cankered, the America of Natty Bumppo is no more: acid rain has stripped the needles off the pine...
...tyranny and bloodshed which follows the accession of the military leaders. In one of the book's most touching scenes he helps his granddaughter's lover, a high official in the administration of the deposed socialist President, escape sure death by smuggling him into a foreign embassy in the trunk of his chauffeured Mercedes...
...victim's mother. Still in curlers and carrying a forgotten hot fudge sundae, she approached the two officers, wailing. "Please tell me it ain't him, please tell me it ain't him," again and again at the top of her lungs. Gently putting her sundae on the trunk of the cruiser, O'Hara led her away, quietly trying to console...
Ferriola's bosses were apparently sympathetic. On Jan. 10 Yaras was sitting in his car near Rogers Park in Chicago, where he normally collected the Mob's cut from bookies, when two gunmen opened fire, killing him. On Feb. 10 Smith's body was found in the trunk of his car in suburban Arlington Heights, Ill. He had been brutally beaten, and his throat was cut. On Feb. 13 English finished a roast pig dinner at Horwath's restaurant in Elmwood Park, Ill., trading small talk for more than two hours with, among others, two Cook County judges...
...released clouds of leaflets promising swift retaliation in the event of hostile action against Israel's withdrawing forces. But about the only violence that day occurred when armed men dragged a pajama-clad man, suspected of collaborating with the Israelis, from his house, bundled him into a car trunk and drove off. All told, half a dozen alleged collaborators are believed to have been killed in Sidon since the pullout. Many others had fled Sidon earlier...