Word: jeep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Personally, Dickey has brought to Hanover an informality unknown during the 29-year tenure of President Hopkins. Dickey, who in 1929 was still a Big Green undergraduate, has forsaken Hopkins' sleek, presidential limousine for a sturdy little jeep. He has been known to pitch in with the snow shoveling squads and has been variously photographed with dogs, a genuine Dartmouth Indian baby, and a broad chief executive smile. Undergraduates who are not afraid of him like...
...police-ridden Sofia, the three Americans had to act surreptitiously. Quietly they bought a funeral wreath. They waited until shortly before they were due to leave Bulgaria by plane. Then they put the wreath in a jeep, headed for the airport, but turned off to a cemetery. On the fresh, unmarked grave of Nikola Petkoff, executed eight days before for his opposition to Bulgaria's Communist-dominated Government (TIME, Oct. 6), they laid the wreath. Each spoke a few words in memory "of one of the greatest democrats of all time...
...Angel. Gitte, Sigrid told Robert, was very anxious to ship a crate full of "fragile personal belongings" to her fiancé in Manhattan. Would Robert be an angel and take it to the airport for her? Carefully Robert set the box on a jeep and pocketed a cablegram written out by Sigrid: "Send $150 immediately and you will see me soon. Gitte." But the cable office would not send it unless Siedentopf signed it with his own name...
...time was Christmas Day minus two, 1944; the place, five miles from Bastogne. The swart, short-legged photographer got out of his jeep, climbed an embankment and fired away with his long-lens Contax at some G.I.s advancing across a snow-covered field. Suddenly one yelled and leveled a Tommy...
...Courthouse Lee was now rarely seen in his black limousine; he had taken to driving his own jeep...