Word: packed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pledge] a family garden on every farm. . . . Conserve the year's food needs of the family. ... By preserving our own food we undertake to release the commercial pack for urban people, Red Cross needs and our allies overseas...
Joyous Thermometers. Reported the London Daily Telegraph's A. T. Cholerton: "The Moscow Command orders are: 'Drop your pack and go lightfoot after them. Then you will probably encircle and destroy them piecemeal and, in any case, you will force them to leave their stores behind...
Only concession to students' rank: they don't have to do kitchen-police duty or keep their two-man tents in order. But they are drilled solidly in such elementary stuff as rolling a pack, using field glass and compass, managing fire distribution and control...
...students are permitted to volunteer but those under twenty-one must have the written consent of the parent. Cards for this purpose can be obtained at Phillips Brooks House, and might be a good thing to pack into the vacation suitcase, if you're not carrying a draft card. The Government has so far abstained from demanding its pound of flesh from students still in college. They might in return give up their pint of blood...
...missionary sighed. "Your Eminence, the Bishop of Durango is an old man; and from his seat to Santa Fe is a distance of 1,500 English miles. There are no wagon roads, no canals, no navigable rivers. Trade is carried on by means of pack-mules, over treacherous trails. . . . The Vicariate of New Mexico will be in a few years raised to an Episcopal See, with jurisdiction over a country larger than Central and Western Europe, barring Russia. The Bishop of that See will direct the. beginning of momentous things...