Word: jeep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...under way with a parade down Lexington's main street with bands, floats and real live jackasses. George Wallace's float, naturally, was a yellow school bus loaded with his mock delegates toting serious placards: REDNECK POWER. Another realistic touch was a token mob riding in a Jeep bearing the sign: MOCK
...back of his motorbike. Nearly everyone seems to have a pig. Pigs are strapped onto Honda seats, pigs are tied onto front bumpers, pigs hang in wire cages from tail gates and are slung from poles that peasants and their wives heft onto their shoulders. On the highway, a Jeep carrying six prosperous refugees had tried to pass a slower vehicle, strayed off the tarmac and hit a mine buried in the unpaved shoulder. The explosion blew the Jeep and its passengers clear across the road and into a field. No one even bothered to look at the bodies; like...
...local joke among Denver cattlemen that the steer should have been named after a rival chain's hamburger, the Whopper. It seems that Big Mac may actually be a white Charolais steer named Jeep. It also appears that he was dyed black for the show, for which the Charolais breed is not eligible, and entered as an Angus. A previous owner of the animal, which was reported to have died last November of hardware sickness (from eating metal, like barbed wire), spotted Big Mac at the show and declared him "the spitting image of Jeep, except that...
With a protest lodged, the $200 prize money was withheld, and the $14,250 sale was halted. For the moment Big Mac-or Jeep, or whatever it is-was settled on a suburban farm, turning whiter and whiter...
...dispensing off-the-cuff advice to callers with problems. Big Daddy lives modestly enough, but he does have a $3,000,000 Israeli-built personal jet, which he has used to make a pilgrimage to Mecca, among other trips. He rockets around Kampala at breakneck speed in his own Jeep. Last year a military policeman warned him against speeding; Amin cheerfully accepted the reprimand. ''It just goes to show," he said, "that I am not above...