Word: jeep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...couple's future was highly uncertain. In the view of her church, Anne had fallen into "grave sin." Gossip around Michael's peripatetic court had it that his assets were only $30,000, two cars and one jeep.* "Michael wants to buy a farm in the States and earn his living," a member of his entourage said. "Do you think he has enough...
Last week, as commander of Israeli forces trying to open the road to Jerusalem, Marcus was in the hills west of the town. There, a few minutes before the U.N. truce went into effect, an Arab bullet killed him. His body was brought back to Tel Aviv by jeep, to be sent to West Point for burial. Said Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion: "His name will live forever in the annals of the Jewish people...
...forested, but the pioneers are hard at work, burning off the underbrush and rooting out stumps. When a flame sears or an ax slips, friends will give the injured what fumbling first aid they can. If that is not enough, the patient is packed into a truck or jeep, jolted and jounced over miles of cattle trails to the Goiaz Evangelical Hospital...
...fear begins to creep up on the moviegoer; surely this allegorical film of our times is going to justify all the advance publicity given it by the Hearst press. But "Berlin Express" is an American film and all must still be for the best; the Russian alights from the jeep, picks up the card, smiles for the first time during the picture, and waves goodbye to his new friends. The fear gives way to an overwhelming glow of relief...
...become an Oriental boom town, crowded by Arab politicians, foreign diplomats and correspondents paying exorbitant prices to sleep four in a room in the Philadelphia Hotel. The streets are crowded with Arab Legionnaires in spiked helmets with Beau Geste backflaps, Bedouins in rags of lacelike complexity, donkeys, camels, jeeps, trucks, U.S. cars. Through this tangled mass, a Legion jeep, mounting a Bren gun and a loud horn, clears the way for three white-helmeted motorcyclists preceding King Abdullah's lordly Cadillac...