Word: kit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reporter Keasler assured one housewife that "this kit will do absolutely nothing to solve your pepper worries." To another he gravely said: "The pepper you buy in the store is nothing but undiluted, pure pepper. But this is the genuine synthetic, with absolutely every safeguard to increase the substitutes...
...stuck in his belt; his conical Russian helmet lay in the ditch beside his rifle. The dead man's pack contained a glob of soggy rice, freshly cooked and wrapped in a dirty blue cloth, a shovel, a tin cup and a spoon; he had no first-aid kit, no ammunition belt (he carried his bullets loose in his pocket), and no canteen. His shoes were Korean-made rubber sneakers...
...literary footnote. He was put there by his onetime friend Dr. Samuel Johnson, who once declared: "I did not think he ought to be shut up. His infirmities were not noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any one else. Another charge was that he did not love clean linen; and I have no passion...
...Luisa Maria, Duchess of Valencia, had been the passionate leader of Avanzadilla Monarquica, most active faction among Spanish monarchists. Conservative royalists called her too "noisy" and undiplomatic. Time & again, Franco's police fined or jailed her. She was so used to being arrested that she kept a "prison kit" always in readiness containing toilet articles and a pair of silk pajamas...
...last week into La Paz for a homemade-auto derby promoted by Bolivia's leading newspaper, La Razon. Some 10,000 spectators lined a twomile, zigzagging, up & downhill race course. Among 250 drivers was one seven-year-old who came equipped with a white smock and first-aid kit; he listed his car as an ambulance, won the right to enter it. The Catavi tin-mining region sent six entrants whose expenses had been paid by subscription. One boy, asked whether he had brakes on his car, replied: "How can I win if I have brakes?" "Then...