cracker-box

Married in Indiana in 1942, J.W. and Cauzette made their way to Texas and somehow managed "to go from a one-room log cabin with a dirt floor to the threshold of some spiffy new cracker-box palace in twelve short years," in a housing development of "cookie-cutter bungalows whose poor workmanship, lack of imagination, and cheap material destined them for an early demise."

Childhood in a minor key Jonathan Yardley 2011

Married in Indiana in 1942, J.W. and Cauzette made their way to Texas and somehow managed "to go from a one-room log cabin with a dirt floor to the threshold of some spiffy new cracker-box palace in twelve short years," in a housing development of "cookie-cutter bungalows whose poor workmanship, lack of imagination, and cheap material destined them for an early demise."

Childhood in a minor key Jonathan Yardley 2011

How privileged, to be surroundede by bits of beauty, even when at times we lived in squallor-filled houses and cracker-box apartments.

Privileged kittenpie 2007

We played in a little cracker-box gym just like in the movie Hoosiers, with steep, old wooden bleachers crammed so close up against the court you felt like you were a part of the game even if you sat in the top row.

Heart of a Patriot Max Cleland 2009

How privileged, to be surroundede by bits of beauty, even when at times we lived in squallor-filled houses and cracker-box apartments.

Archive 2007-03-01 kittenpie 2007

Which is enough for me, really, so I walk down the street past a handful of rotting cracker-box houses and start hopping fences and cutting through backyards.

Occupational Hazards Jonathan Segura 2008

Which is enough for me, really, so I walk down the street past a handful of rotting cracker-box houses and start hopping fences and cutting through backyards.

Occupational Hazards Jonathan Segura 2008

H. Public Enemies by Brian BurroughsAt the beginning of the Great Depression, much of the United States was still the Wild West: dirt roads, cracker-box banks and "murderous hillbillies" in search of cash -- but now with faster cars and bigger guns than the cops had.

SNAP JUDGEMENT: BOOKS 2007

The Chinese government wants it done yesterday, so they™ve relocated an army of men from outlying areas to build more of those hideous concrete, cracker-box, high-rise apartments.

Run For The Money Feagan, Stephanie 2006

Leesburg was in Loudoun County: rough, luxurious rolling hills full of rednecks and Southern gentlemen, long-distance commuters living in cracker-box houses and Yankee millionaires hunting foxes across vast estates.

Summer of Deliverance Christopher Dickey 1998