Word: satchel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paratrooper of a comrade who jumped in the same stick but whose chute failed to open. Popeyed, rice farmers saw field guns and trucks larger than their houses drop from the sky. U.S. marines, landing from 30 helicopters, fought a mock battle against "enemy" strongpoints with flamethrowers and satchel charges...
...course, worries herself satchel-eyed about him, and not without reason. When he gets his hands on the stick of a jet, he looks as if he were holding a hashish lollipop, and he sighs: "Now I know how the angels feel!" Down on the ground his instructor (James Whitmore) breathes a blessing: "Show 'em up, tiger! You own the sky." All of this naturally makes Airman McConnell seem a bit of a sap as well as a lot of a hero, and strongly suggests that the Air Force itself is just a shining-faced troop of hi-octane...
SABOTAGE. The so-called "satchel bombs" that may be planted by saboteurs, landing parties or paratroopers in a future war are likely to explode in basements, subway stations or other underground places. Knowledge of their effect on subsurface conduits and structures will be valuable to both civil and military authorities...
...Satchel Paige's late fling in major league baseball appeared to be over today...
...monkey wrenches in controls imposed by various governments. But money always finds a free market-and its true worth. Thus, when Britain imposed the most rigid currency controls, the effect was to create dozens of separate varieties of sterling in the world's black and free markets-including "satchel" sterling used by smugglers. No matter what regulations were made to block the export of currency, money manipulators found a way around them...