Word: cardboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are cheap cardboard crèches, turned out by the thousands in busy factories, and there are others whose making is a joyful family tradition; one Madrid family lives in an apartment so small that their crèche completely fills it; they haul it up to the ceiling and sleep beneath. There are crèches in churches, in public squares, even in bars-a notable one is located in the English Bar in Nazareth...
...greatest concession he made to convention was to marry three times, and each union went out the window along with his roving eye. His taste for young flesh led to three statutory rape scandals, plus a juicy paternity suit-but the older he got, the more he seemed a cardboard sinner. Finally a bloated travesty of his younger self, he was typecast in his last three films as a drunk, and his forthcoming autobiography is called My Wicked, Wicked Ways...
...ruled Castro's director of culture, Vicentina Antuña, is out because he is "a recent importation [from the U.S.] and foreign to our culture." From now on Cuban children will expect presents from the Three Wise Men on January 6, the feast of the Epiphany. No cardboard Santas or reindeer will be permitted. "Decorations must be made of Cuban materials, with traditional Cuban scenes," ruled Senora Antuña, "and Cuban Christmas cards must be used instead of imported ones." Yankee Christmas trees are out; everyone will use the good Cuban palm...
Frozen Box. A one-piece package for frozen foods has been developed by Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. Replacing the cumbersome double package (wax covering over cardboard) now used to avoid odor mixture and freezer burn, the new package does both jobs with a single wax cardboard, which can be sealed with a cold adhesive...
...also doubts about transparent packages, one of the star attractions of the supermarket. In a four-week test in Eastern supermarkets, grocers were surprised to find that shoppers bought more women's and children's socks, pants and other soft goods packaged in the old-fashioned cardboard containers. There also was less stealing...