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Word: jeep (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heap. He is a go-day-wonder-how-he-made-it who begins the war as a casualty (he tries to catch a baseball with his ear), continues it as a sad sack (he reports for duty by hitting the wrong pedal, ramming his jeep through the side of a building, parking it smartly beside the C.O.'s desk), but ends it as a hero (he captures the gefilte-fisherman). The nut occasionally has a date: Lieutenant Prentiss, a nurse who in civilian life was "just a tall girl, but now I'm a short commodity." When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bumper Crop of Nuts | 4/13/1962 | See Source »

Carnegie-supported books have stirred action on everything from business schools to junior colleges and graduate education. But sometimes Carnegie has to create the experts, as in 1947, when it started sending "Jeep-sized" teams of U.S. scholars to Africa, prepared them for the coming problems of crumbling colonialism. In 1948. Carnegie gained immeasurable ''lead time" for the U.S. by starting Harvard's Russian Research Center. Soon due at another major university is an equally precedent-setting center on Communist China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: 50 Years of Smart Giving | 4/6/1962 | See Source »

...usual, the headlines out of Berlin were dramatic-an American commandant held up at the East-West frontier; a Soviet jeep chased by U.S. troops in retaliation. General Lucius Clay, the President's special representative in Berlin, flew to Washington to demand that the local commander get more freedom to slug back at Communist provocations, unhampered by "contingency plans" requiring a check with Washington before action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy: Bargain on Berlin? | 1/12/1962 | See Source »

Sand and a fine salt spray sliced into the open Jeep, and the driver and three passengers scrootched deeper into their parkas. A voice cried "Onward!" And the Jeep scuffed up Cape Cod's North Beach. The leader's black-gloved hand shot up, and the Jeep stopped. He aimed a long-lens camera out to sea as the eyes of his companions followed. One man fumbled with a fowling piece, then dropped it when the leader mumbled something. Another scribbled on a tiny note...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recreation: Rarae Aves | 1/12/1962 | See Source »

...school at Sekondi on the Ghana coast. Harvard Graduate Roger Hamilton, 22, teaching in the coastal village of Assinie, is cut off by tropical rains for nine months of the year, shares his house with a herd of goats and an occasional snake, sometimes needs eleven hours to Jeep 18 miles over Ghana roads to collect supplies. Hamilton has no complaints. Says he: "It's a good thing I don't mind isolation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Corpsmen in Ghana | 11/17/1961 | See Source »

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