Word: cardboard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...full of it," Tomes says. But he kept running across that sentence in other religious volumes. Finally Tomes gave in--and gave away his televisions, his radios, his Russian artifacts and even his bedroom. "I moved into the basement of a friend's house and slept on cardboard...
...Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir," King said. "Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check; a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'" These were not the words of a cardboard saint advocating a Hallmark card-style version of brotherhood. They were the stinging phrases of a prophet, a man demanding justice not just in the hereafter, but in the here...
BOSTON--It seems only fitting that a gift shop whose most popular-selling item is a White House golf team polo shirt would use life-size cardboard cutouts of Bill and Hillary Clinton as part of its interior decor...
...national attitude: show me, don't tell me; ingenuity applied to example; homegrown know-how. Fikad's brother saw a wood-cutting machine in an English magazine and forged one out of scrap metal. Down in the artisans' suq in Asmara, men in blue overalls don masks cut from cardboard to weld new pots from old oil tins and cooking braziers from rusted rods. The clang, hammer, sizzle of makeshift industry are everywhere as boys flatten old iron bars for their brothers to beat into new shovels...
...Jerry walks off to find his girlfriend andgo home, Daniel continues to stare disconsolatelyat his cardboard box, and Cooper limps off to finda meal and shelter for the night. Outside CVS,Shorey finally gets his post, and the panhandlinggoes...