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Word: jeep (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quacking taxis waddled and pushed. A scarlet bus snorted. Bicycles got in everybody's way. A scrofulous old horse and barouche tangled with an American jeep. Bobbies waved their arms, even raised their voices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: New Waterloo | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

...colored troops promptly taught the natives (some of them are cannibals) their favorite game, got licked (see cut, p. 45). The natives, like many before them, were entranced by a jeep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: Yanks in New Guinea | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

Eighteen-year-old King Peter of Yugoslavia arrived by plane in Washington, looked forward to: 1) talking with President Roosevelt; 2) watching airplane production; 3) driving a jeep; 4) playing baseball. It turned out that he had something else to look forward to, but a war-long wait lay ahead. When it's over he will marry pretty Princess Alexandra of Greece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Hearts & Thistles | 6/29/1942 | See Source »

Observer. At Camp Shelby, Miss., Major James Wells found a way to train infantrymen to hide from enemy observers—toured the field in a jeep, used a slingshot on all heads showing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 22, 1942 | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

Little Bo-Peep Has Lost Her Jeep (Spike Jones and his City Slickers; Bluebird). Put-Put-Put (Barry Wood; Bluebird). The words will drive you crazy, if the music doesn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: June Records | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

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