Word: rucksacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soldiers did not come home. It also means that many others came back like the anonymous German who appeared in a news picture last week, as a grim symbol of postwar German life. He hobbled along on one leg, while his buddy carried his new artificial limb in his rucksack...
...such easy refuge awaits Frau K. She was conspicuous among those I saw; she carried no rucksack, she was well dressed, and her eyes bulged with fear edging on hysteria. She had traveled all day from a village north of Berlin where her husband is a physician. Dr. K., a Stalingrad prisoner, was released a year ago and soon resumed his old practice. The local MVD eyed his success and set their price. He was summoned and instructed to use his office as an intelligence center, to submit reports on all his patients, some of whom were suspected of being...
...dusty country road near Kempen in the British zone (the story went), a wasted woman struggled under a heavy rucksack toward the Ruhr. Pastor X stopped her, guessed what she was carrying, said: "You have been lucky to find so many potatoes, my good woman. Many visitors come to our district from the Ruhr and return empty-handed...
...long periods off the barren Alaska land, subzero blasts to mosquito-clotted summer mugginess. Their physical endurance is far beyond the ordinary soldier's; one Scout walked 90 miles over corrugated tundra in three days. Scouts use Trapper Nelson packs instead of the Army's steel-framed rucksack, shun Army K and C rations for dehydrated beef and other foods which weigh less. A Scout's greatest fear is that he may fall through the ice, numb his hands so that he is unable to strike a match...
...Kennedy listed "the things we ought to do: 1) Money. Have quite a large sum ... to be sewed into my stays. 2) See that each member of the household has a pair of good strong shoes. 3) Have a rucksack . . . for everyone, even Charles (the smallest). 4) Think out an iron ration of compressed food. 5) Remember gas masks, ration books and identification cards...