Word: jeep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Myrand was assembling a patrol in the chill darkness near Eschweiler when a company runner told him. "Go back," he said. "I got no time for gags." Then he started toward the Nazi lines. Returning, he was blown out of a jeep by a bursting mine. Then, bruised, unbelieving, he found himself traveling...
Oldendorf's heavyweights, the armored tip of the spear, were days ahead of the other groups. They included the "ghost ships," veteran battleships raised from the mud of Pearl Harbor, which had fought so well at Surigao. His jeep carriers opened an air umbrella as he bored past Mindoro into the South China...
...multilateral school* of 1980 will have some 3,000 pupils and there will be umpteen sides and umpteen wings in each. Its buildings will dwarf the countryside for miles around. It will have its own aerodrome and pupils will arrive by communal transport planes and even by private 'jeep' planes from all points of the compass...
...like that all night. There must have been a buzz bomb or a piloted plane raid somewhere every five minutes. The next day in a jeep we saw the tail flame on one robomb overhead suddenly go out and then the big frame of the bomb dove down on us in perfect silence, an inhuman Moloch coming to devour us. We threw ourselves to the ground and it burst nearby, breaking all the windows but not hurting anyone. I went to a café where I had been the first American three months previously and was kissed and embraced...
...Guerre. From France, Staff Sergeant Paul Lobel notified his family in Middleboro, Mass., that a French girl tried to kiss him, pulled him from a jeep, broke...