Word: rucksacks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...painfully aware of the misery of humankind," asserts James M. Robinson, noted director of Claremont's Institute for Antiquity and Christianity. "He felt he should do nothing to aggravate human misery. As long as there was a beggar without food tonight, how could he store up food in his rucksack...
...correct badly turned-in feet and a spinal deformity. "Restless and bored" with the schools and rules that came with her heritage, she eventually quit college and at 21 left the U.S. for what became eleven years in Europe, Africa and Asia with little more than the 65-lb. rucksack she carried on her back...
...sober light of morning, the boys began to wish they had never tried their puckish prank. Whenever Per put his rucksack down, the arm inside made such a resounding clunk that his companions took to teasing him. Per, they said, must be the vandal who had alarmed the city's police force. And so that very night, the sheepish boys aroused a drowsy policeman and placed the severed limb before him. Before Per and Mike can live happily ever after, they may have to pay for the mermaid's repair. And that is likely to cost them...
While none of this is exactly in the rucksack range, it is affordable for many inflation-battered Americans. Says Dallas Housewife Beth Gilson, who is touring Paris with her insurance executive husband: "It's still more expensive than what I'm used to, but it's no more expensive than cities like San Francisco and New York." Even students are scrimping less. Susan Shafer, 19, of Michigan State University, who is on a ten-week foreign study program, shares a two-bedroom flat in the Latin Quarter for $16 a day, a price that includes two meals...
...Florida sun, the Paratrooper shoulders his 60-lb. rucksack and his M-16 rifle and joins his squad. The jump is a mere memory. Here on the ground, there is soldiering to do. -By Don Sider