Search Details

Word: knapsacks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...wreckage police found a workshop for manufacturing small bombs suitable for suicide missions. A police source says 33 packets of explosives were discovered-one of which was already packed into a knapsack, while others were at various stages of assembly. The upshot: Azahari, 48, and Nurdin, 33, were almost certainly planning a string of fresh attacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Killer's Last Stand | 11/14/2005 | See Source »

...conference table, but still he whimpers. "Would you like some water?" Instead, Raphael calls out for his father, Daryl Buckley, who is artistic director of the new-music elision Ensemble, based at the University of Queensland in Brisbane. "You want a Spiderman lolly?" Lim flourishes the dispenser from a knapsack, and the clicking sound of the sweet's release does the trick. Raphael is quiet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Off the Scale | 5/15/2005 | See Source »

Reese Li couldn't agree more. A former Army officer who longed for a diaper bag with as many pockets as her trusty military knapsack, she decided to make one. Then she sold one on eBay. After hand sewing 500 bags, she decided last year to find a manufacturer and sell wholesale to baby boutiques. She garnered celebrity clients like Cate Blanchett, Gwyneth Paltrow and Courteney Cox, and she projects $100,000 in sales this year. "I seriously don't want it to get too large," she says. "I always wanted to be a stay-at-home mom. I didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meet the Mompreneurs | 4/25/2005 | See Source »

...officer was dispatched to Fay House on 10 Garden St. on a report of an abandoned knapsack. Officers determined its content to be trash...

Author: By Robin M. Peguero, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: POLICE LOG | 1/10/2005 | See Source »

...leave the following morning. He has finally gained his parents' permission, and he sits his four younger brothers and sisters down for a chat, but decides not to tell them that he's fleeing war. "There's work for me in Europe," he says instead. He packs a small knapsack with a single change of clothes, a black satchel for his money and a few photos. As he boards the bus on Jan. 26, he looks out the window at the small group of friends and relatives who have come to wish him luck. "I registered that moment like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Desperate Journey | 12/14/2003 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | Next