Word: tinsel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tinsel-like strips, similar to the shredded British-designed material called window used with great success by R.A.F. and U.S. bombers in World War II to impair the accuracy of Hitler's radar-controlled antiaircraft guns...
...when all the tinsel and touting are swept away, what they want, after all, is the pleasure of giving, a tradition and a need that is older than Christendom. Pagans celebrated the winter solstice with bonfires to strengthen the sun in its course, exchanged wreaths and candles and crowded their streets in noisy processions. The Romans celebrated the Saturnalia (Dec. 19-25) by giving presents to the poor and in return received garlands, tapers or grains of frankincense. On the Kalends of January (Jan. 1-3), Roman men gave one another "honeyed things" to ensure a year of sweetness, lamps...
...long as 20 years before burning. No expense was spared, lest Ide Anak Agung Ngurah Agung's dissatisfied-spirit return to haunt his family. The final cremation budget: $110,000. This included the price of a trip to far off Singapore by the rajah's eldest son; tinsel, gilded paper and assorted, brightly colored gewgaws required for the crematory tower were not available in import-restricted Indonesia. The family's 200-year-old palace was redecorated, and 1,200 roasting pigs were set aside for the nine-day public barbecue preceding the cremation...
Boyish of face and gleaming of tooth. Ronald Reagan earned a reputation among cinemagoers as a pleasant young man in white ducks, whose deepest thought was reserved for the next dance. But in his private life, Reagan has always been regarded as a man concerned with issues beyond the tinsel of Hollywood. As president of the Screen Actors Guild, Reagan was a leader of the fight in the mid-'40s against a Communist attempt to take over Hollywood's trade unions...
...program is augmented by a fatuous short, Dances in Spain. High-decibel castanets, surrealist sets with real tinsel trees, effeminate gypsies chasing Tinkerbellesque points of light--these, one is led to conclude, are the cultural outpourings of Franco Spain. Uninspired photography alternates with extraneous quotations by Garcia Lorca. An unfortunate program--but don't miss the music between the showings. The 1812 Overture has gone forever; and the Brattle's all new Altec-Lansing Hi-Fidelity Sound System is devoted to reproducing the brass canzonas of Giovanni Gabrieli. They're restful and reassuring...