Word: jeep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...obtuse patriotism. Other cultures were compared to Amerika's, but with no sense of cultural relativity. From texts and Weekly Readers, we learned a national solipsism and irremedial egoism that made it possible for our soldiers in Nam to tape the severed ears of V. C. victims to their jeep antennae as if they were so many dried apricots...
...Cambodian capital. South Viet Nam Correspondent Jim Willwerth described the military situation from his side of the line. In Saigon, Bob Anson pieced together a narrative of the events that led to the historic commitment. Burt Pines was already trailing Vietnamese armored units in his TIME & LIFE Jeep. As troops rolled into Prasaut, 20 miles across the border, Pines breakfasted with III Corps Commander Lieut. General Do Cao Tri, who invited him along for a helicopter inspection of the battlefield...
...police, and to be treated with particular courtesy. But when the cops burst in, they unceremoniously ripped his medal off, beat him to the floor, handcuffed him. dragged him down a flight of stairs by his feet, bumping his head on each step, and tossed him into a waiting Jeep...
...season afternoon. Adjudant-Chef Robert Garros, 34, stopped his Jeep and looked back. A long funnel of dust stretched out behind his platoon's four battered, dun-colored weapons carriers. His 35 legionnaires were tired and filthy, their faces caked with white dust. After a moment, Garros, a muscular barrel of a man with 14 long years of tough service in the legion, raised his arm to signal the advance. With the Jeep in the lead, the four weapons carriers rumbled ahead side by side and raced over deep elephant tracks into a village of conical straw huts...