Word: knapsacked
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...loaded his arms with raisins, peanuts, cigarets, candy, sugar and the other stores left over from our lunch. . . . His eyes glistened with pleasure. He stepped back, barely able to retain a grip on his spear, knapsack, and load of rations, but still in possession of his dignity. "American, him good people!" he said, with emphasis, with which high compliment he left us. It was quite the nicest compliment we could possibly have been vouchsafed...
Each man kept his musket, powder horn, wooden canteen, knapsack and uniform. In his pocket were four months' wages in promissory notes, marketable at only two shillings to the pound. Veterans who thought this a meager reward (as most did) had the option of staying in camp until their enlistments were up. But, as Washington had shrewdly guessed, what every one wanted most was to get home...
...swart, grumpy sergeant with a crew haircut gave me his knapsack, warned me that I would answer with my life for it, and ordered me to follow him and his men. Fifteen paratroopers started out with two heavy machine guns across the young wheatfields toward the wooded, Partisan-held ridge a mile off to the west. To the right and to the left of me similar small groups were advancing in the same direction, some carrying heavy trench mortars...
...Home Abroad. Somewhere in the South Pacific, Medical Corps Major Robert Rosenthal spied a Jap knapsack, opened it, found a picture of his sister. It had been taken from a 1925 copy of the New Haven Register...
...help save his skin. The plane will help guide searching parties, provide shelter, fuel for warmth and smoke signals, materials to make sun helmets and knives. Other handy equipment in planes: a parachute for a tent, a converted seat cushion for a sun helmet, a parachute pack as a knapsack...