Word: knapsacked
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Potato Seekers. On the Autobahn at the edge of Berlin, a young girl in a bright print dress lies on the grass in the warm sun. A man, whose dirt-streaked face is stubbled with beard, squats on a knapsack near her, staring out before him. A youth on crutches hobbles out on the broad concrete highway and hails a truck which has just left the checkpoint. As it stops, all scramble to their feet and crowd around the driver. They are the potato seekers, hitchhiking their way out to the flat farm country, where they will try to trade...
...Russian zone, a man receives a notice to report at the railroad station within 48 hours; he knows he will be sent to work in the uranium mines near Chemnitz.* He packs a knapsack and is heard from no more...
...converted Oxford into a strange combination of unlicked cubs fresh from public schools and older men just back from the wars. When one of these veterans "went down" (left Oxford) to enlist, Sir Richard said that if he were heading for the trenches his knapsack would contain a copy of Thucydides in the original Greek. In view of the speed of modern warfare, he added, thoughtfully, a man might be justified in taking the Loeb translation...
There are the snapshots Peter Stackpole picked up on the bloody beach of Saipan ( one shows a smiling, doll-like Japanese child waving the flag of Nippon) -and the stamp collection TIME Senior Editor Sidney Olson took from the knapsack of a Hitler youth who lay dead outside battered Nürnberg( " The Russians had already gone over him pretty thoroughly, but they won't take anything that has the swastika...
...China and her way of life. As military attache at the U.S. legation in Peiping, his reports were concise, but packed with information. Soon he won the reputation of being an authority on Chinese affairs. He studied in books and at first hand. His lean, leathery figure, bedroll and knapsack slung over his shoulder, became a familiar one, tramping across China's flat, dusty, northern countryside. He liked to mingle with the chiupa, the rugged riflemen who, since the Manchu dynasty was overthrown (1911), have borne the burden of their nation's endless civil wars...