Word: cardboarded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...country famed for its advanced technology, the vote-counting ceremony in Tokyo last week had a strangely archaic flavor. White-jacketed party workers carried cardboard boxes full of ballots across the floor of the city's cavernous harbor-front International Trade Fair exhibition hall. They tallied 974,150 mail-in votes by hand, then stuffed the ballots into green plastic baskets for a final scrutiny by election referees. Finally came the announcement that 58% of the members of the ruling Liberal-Democratic Party (L.D.P.) had picked Yasuhiro Nakasone, 64, to succeed Zenko Suzuki, 71, as their president. When...
...earth slipped into an Ice Age, but brief rainy periods occurred about 200,000, 60,000 and 10,000 years ago. Researchers who have ventured into south-central Egypt have found artifacts of human occupation. The U.S.Egyptian team that visited last September found the area so dry that cardboard boxes, cigarette papers and tracks left by the British army during World War II were perfectly preserved. Seeking signs of earlier inhabitants, the team dug at sites along the banks of hidden riverbeds shown by the new radar maps. Their findings: tools and other artifacts presumably used as long...
...bathtub. There are some nice shots of the boat gliding along, framed by rosy-gray sunsets, but nothing that Marlo Perkins couldn't have shown us. Fitzcarraldo's guest is acted out in such grandiloquently theatrical terms that even the mighty Amazon gets relegated to the status of a cardboard backdrop...
...floor above them, in a large, dark laboratory, works a team of archaeologists, scraping the dirt off a pile of shards and filing various artifacts into hundreds of cardboard boxes that line an entire wall. "This place is conducive to doing work that has no real theme to it," says one. "Accessibility is pretty important too," adds another. "We work pretty odd hours...
...mutilated. Some people were killed in their homes, while others were dragged outside to be murdered. Judging from the debris that was left, some of the soldiers had leaned against a house to enjoy snacks and smoke cigarettes in the midst of their work. Scattered about were the discarded cardboard boxes of field rations, some of them made in the U.S. They had English labels-"turkey and dumplings"-written on the side. Other boxes had Hebrew lettering...