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Word: cardboarded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...while her seriousness as a runner is beyond doubt, Beckford is known for her zany antics during practice, occassionally masquerading as a six-foot walking cardboard box (just writing what I'm told...

Author: By Sara J. Nicholas, | Title: Double Trouble | 10/17/1980 | See Source »

...hours while repairs were made to their chartered Boeing 737-the only hitch in the evacuation of Fort McCoy. By week's end nearly all 3,000 refugees were gone. Meanwhile, at Indiantown Gap Military Reservation in Pennsylvania, about 2,500 Cubans were loading their belongings into cardboard cartons for a similar journey this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Cuban Refugees Move On | 10/13/1980 | See Source »

...Henderson explains. The U.S. government provides the uniforms free of charge, small, baggy replicas of real Air Force clothes. More importantly, they provide decorations. At the front of the class, all the pins and badges--right up to four-star general--are glued on a piece of cardboard...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Integrity, Responsibility, Honesty... | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

...wall. That is, one imagines the T-Bird is black. Caked with an impenetrable layer of L.A. dirt, the broad-flanked sedan could be chartreuse for all anyone can tell. Inside floats a clutter of unmailed bills, unopened letters, wadded-up Kleenex, a portable AM radio (antenna broken), a cardboard box full of old, yellowing T-shirts, and a paperback wedged in the crevice where windshield meets dashboard. Its title, Invade My Privacy, is fading fast in the sun. The auto's left rear fender sports an elaborate decal -- Blue Valentine -- the very same left rear fender emblazoned...

Author: By Stephen X. Rea, | Title: The Tom Waits Cross-Country Marathon Interview | 9/18/1980 | See Source »

...clear understanding that he provide and care for my husband for the rest of his life." She dies at La Scola's Malibu home on July 18,1979, of congestive heart failure, according to a death certificate signed by the doctor. He has her cremated and puts a cardboard box containing her ashes in the trunk of her car, which he has inherited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Doctor and the Moneyed Monk | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

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