Word: jeep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Times's scholarly Herbert L. Matthews (TIME, April 12) was with the Allied armies fighting on the plain of Naples. For a day Correspondent Matthews dropped his war reporting, hired a guide, went up Vesuvius in a jeep and afoot to sightsee. Then he wrote home...
...Scottish-born, 40-year-old Alexander B. Austin began his dispatch one day last week to the London Daily Herald. He filed it, climbed into a jeep with three other British correspondents: stocky, thirtyish William J. Munday of the London News Chronicle; mild-mannered, 38-year-old Stewart Sale of Reuters; Basil Gingell of the British Exchange Telegraph agency...
...likely: when auto production is resumed, Ford will drop its Zephyr and Lincoln-Continental lines; will turn its designing job over to outsiders again; will concentrate on turning out frill-free cars cheaper and faster than anyone else. In effect, the Lizzie would again become a kind of family jeep...
...ought to get in there fast and exploit this barrage." Back at the outpost, he commented: "We're going to attack in half an hour." But he did not wait. He was off to other forward units, riding with one long leg astride a fender of his jeep...
...take a long time, the way things move over here. These Chinese tiekle me to death. They walk down the streets and roads, never moving for a truck or jeep. . . . No one makes a move to help a guy who has been hurt or killed because, if you do, you have to help his whole family. Consequently traffic victims just lie there and die. . . . Got a couple of combat missions but they were so easy I didn't even want to count them...