Word: knapsacked
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...lengthened until lots of American kids are as sure as God made little apples that Johnny planted every orchard in the land. In this unassumingly authoritative book. Author Price, who lives in Ohio's Appleseed country, good-humoredly sorts out reluctant fact from ready fancy. Lugging a knapsack with apple seeds into the wilderness about 1800, Massachusetts-born John Chapman for the next 45 years planted his nurseries in inviting places on the Ohio and Indiana frontiers. A dedicated Swedenborgian, he peddled his seedlings and otherworldly chatter among the settlers, wearing rags, walking barefoot even on ice, sleeping...
Penalty Tour. In Toronto, Canadian Air Force Veteran William Bagler was given 21 days in jail after he took out his spite against his wife by dressing her in pajamas and an R.C.A.F. raincoat, putting a knapsack full of bricks on her back, making her march a pack drill in the basement of their home...
Among the blunt instruments in President Juan Perón's political knapsack is a 1948 law making it a punishable offense to write or say "anything that offends the dignity of any public official." Time and again under this law of desacato (disrespect), Argentine politicians and journalists have landed in jail for airing even mild anti-Peóon opinions. Said Perón in a speech this month: "We must keep the due dignity of office intact. This is only fair; otherwise systematic attacks will become customary, and who can say how far that will take...
...court. In his absence, the judge found him guilty, ordered him to pay De Gasperi 1 lira in damages, $480 as a fine and court costs, and sentenced Guareschi to a year in jail. Said Don Camillo's creator: "I will not appeal. I will take up the knapsack with which the Nazi SS sent me to a German concentration camp, and will go to prison...
...diplomat: "1) When an international agreement is unilaterally denounced, insure that any formal protests you are instructed to make are as hesitant and equivocal as possible ... 2) Remember that nowadays the glittering prizes are given for feats of demolition, not of construction . . . Every diplomat carries a peerage in his knapsack, provided only that he keeps retreating ... 3) Do not allow seeming setbacks to lower your spirit. Rather, they should be made the occasion for displaying even more complacency and self-satisfaction than before . . . 4) In politics, you should incline to the left. If you can combine this with ample private...