Word: packs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...irony of it is that I spend my time teaching students how precious is our freedom of thought, conscience and speech. I've tried so hard to show them that freedom of speech means more than being free to tell your neighbor that the Administration consists of a pack of fools, that it means also the responsibility for being informed, tolerant, and for keeping speech free. I've insisted in every way I knew that they must read and think and vote. So now my boys-and many are in service-are now out fighting for something they...
There was no alternative. The ministers gave their blessing to the Premier's trip, voted him power to "reestablish relations with Stalin." Stanislaw Mikolajczyk did not lose a minute. He rushed to pack his bags, donned a light overcoat, motored to the airfield where a British plane waited...
...Hitler's envoy, wily Franz von Papen, instead of racing for Berlin, canceled a vacation, hotfooted to Ankara for a last-minute, bootless talk with Turkey's Premier and Foreign Minister, Sükrü Saracoglu. This move also gave Papen a chance to burn some papers, pack his bags...
...place the trail climbed 5,400 feet in less than six miles. Natives said Merrill's pack train would never make it. When some weary mules stalled, muleskinners shouldered loads, shoved the weary animals up the mountain...
Partisan detachments and pack animals in pokret, often camouflaged by green branches tied on their backs, sneak through the wilderness in single file, some times stretching out several miles. Every man must shout, "Veza!" (Contact!) when he loses sight of the man in front or behind. Orders are continually passed from mouth to mouth along the Indian file. Our first pokret covered 25 miles of wilderness in 14 hours at night...