Word: kit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enemy launched a surprise attack, and I made a quick run with others to a nearby cave on the shore. In my haste I cut my hand on a sharp piece of coral rock. It was a Negro soldier who took a bandage from his own first-aid kit to bind my hand and stem the blood...
Stripe Down the Hood. At least, the new Formula Vee (for Volkswagen) class seems inflation-proof. Anybody who has a spare Beetle lying around the garage can turn it into a reasonable facsimile of a Grand Prix car-cigar-shaped body, roll bar and all-by buying a kit for $945. An extra $1,000 buys a brand-new Volkswagen engine, plus a special gearbox, rear axle and suspension-and $2,495 buys the whole 825-lb. bomb from the factory. The family sedan can even be raced as is: just painting a stripe down the hood or a number...
Freshman Quentin Spector, who played rugger in England, shows promise although he may not give much weight to the scrum as wing forward. In lock position at the back of the pack is Kit Barrow, veteran player of three years and former fullback...
...corners of the store, among the T-shirts and sneakers, one can still find, for example, an anachronism like the first aid kit containing only a compress bandage and a package of shell wound dressing. Those with the inclination can buy sextants, litters, bayonets, shoulder holsters, jungle hammocks, gas masks and policemen's billies. Central no longer sells dog sleds, as it once did, but the suspicious purchaser in the market for a mine detector is its ideal customer...
...week after its stormy birth, the infant nation of Malaysia was hoping for peace but preparing for war. Two Malayan infantry battalions packed their kit bags and prepared to embark for the steaming jungles of Sarawak and Sabah (North Borneo); in Sarawak, orders were issued to raise a native infantry battalion. A round-the-clock watch was begun on the Malayan shore of the Malacca Straits, and 6,000 British, Gurkha and local troops and constabulary units doubled their patrols along Sarawak's tangled, 400-mile border with Indonesian Borneo...