Word: cardboarded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cardboard box sits incongruously on an antique coffee table in an ornate office at the State Department. On the top of the box is an inscription scrawled in red marker: FOREIGN POLICY KIT. FOR THE BEST DAD IN GOVERNMENT. Inside are a tiny American flag, some Band-Aids, dice, a flashlight, a compass, a pacifier and a box of Anacin. "Everything I need," laughs George Shultz...
...grease and tomato sauce with bean sprouts or broccoli. The pies themselfs are exemplary. Other options are all within a couple hundred yards of the Yard. Harvard Pizza and Pinnochio's for quick service, Uno's for a full meal; deep-dish Chicago-style and Regine's for lukewarm cardboard...
Bracelets made of cardboard hardly sound like stepping-out gear, but in California they are fast becoming fashionable. Recession Ware bracelets, offered in novelty shops for $2.50 each, are the latest gimmick from master Marketer Stephen Askin, 43, of Los Angeles. During the Iranian hostage crisis, Askin sold Ayatullah Dartboards. More recently he has developed aerosol cans of water labeled Nuclear Fallout Repellant. Even zanier is his Deeley Bobber, a glitter-coated headset that looks like insect antennae. In the past ten weeks an estimated 2 million bobbers have been sold at $2.99 each...
...hospital gates appeared a crudely lettered cardboard communiqu...
...them was Nefalah Farour, 38, who had fled the P.L.O.-dominated port of Tyre on the first day of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. Accompanied by five of her seven children, she had walked through the mountains to the dubious safety of Beirut. Exhausted, she squatted on a flattened cardboard box and fretted over the fate of the two youngsters she had been obliged to leave behind in her flight from the Israeli shelling. The two children had been playing at a neighbor's house when the family ran. Had they survived? The answer remained buried in the rubble...