Word: jeep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost every day and sometimes twice or thrice on Sunday, often taking his entire staff of 40. (He also keeps a Bible on his desk, another in his brief case.) He likes to drive a car at a hell-for-leather clip and sometimes does the same with a jeep, although in his present post he has several chauffeurs, including Henry Chambers, a Negro staff sergeant who has been with him for 18 years...
...demonstration took place in the town of Roetgen (pop. 2,300), near Aachen. Many of the townspeople had fled. Some were hiding in terror. Civil Affairs Officer Captain Gordon F. Thomas, of Brockton, Mass., drove in with five men, parked his jeep in front of the post office, established himself as judge, mayor and military boss...
Back from Paris to Rome last week went a group of five chastised but unchastened U.S. and British correspondents after one of the war's most spectacular journalistic jaunts. Late last month, led by the A.P.'s Ed Kennedy, the five had commandeered an Army jeep and driver, set out from the southern to the northern French theater of operations without permission. Their aim: to be the first Americans to "make a juncture" with U.S. troops in the northern theater. They were the first, by ten days, having passed unscathed between two German columns. For this scandalous breach...
...that he had just motioned a Mark V tank into the assembly area and the German tank had obediently followed his hand signal. Another civilian car loaded with German officers blithely rode into the middle of an American tank column before it was discovered by an officer in a jeep and shot...
...commander of the First Canadian Army, Lieut. General Henry Duncan Graham Crerar drove his jeep from one command post to another -pausing to read reports with the avidity of a hungry wolf, to give orders in his quiet, precise, unbending manner - he and his men were contented. They had an important job, opening the ports that would supply the next offensive, and they were doing...