Word: jeep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...military man whose favorite pastime was hanging out with members of the private militia he led. Amin, 40, was quiet and intellectual, a lawyer and businessman who kept out of the limelight to pursue his private life. Bashir felt comfortable in fatigues or at the wheel of a Jeep; Amin has always had an eye for fine tailoring and limousines. While Bashir evoked strong emotions of loyalty or hatred, Amin was regarded...
...Jeep ride around Hope, his 5,000-acre plantation south of Charleston, S.C., he identifies an indigo bunting and spots a pair of wild turkey hens. "I've got two baby bison, and one of them was born last week," he says happily, "... and baby geese, baby turkeys, plus I have two bears and there's alligators, and we're raising all kinds of ducks. I'm making a garden of Eden. It's amazing how tame things will get when you're not trying to kill them. Countries should act the same...
...Lewellyn, who ran a brokerage company in Des Moines, wore custom-made suits that he bought in batches. He lived with his wife and two children in a $200,000 home in a suburb of Des Moines. The family owned a Mercedes-Benz, a BMW, a Chevrolet and a Jeep Wagoneer...
...March 31, Lewellyn withdrew $500,000 in $100 bills from the Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Co. of Chicago, and vanished from sight. He had parked the Jeep at the Des Moines municipal airport. On the front seat he left two books: the Bible and the autobiography of a reformed check forger entitled Catch...
Chinabound is anecdotes. It is the "oriental serutability" of "Ed Reischauer," the six-week bike ride before the first visit to China, encounters with Chou En-Lai, and rounding up Chinese journalists at their homes by jeep for a Douglas Mac Arthur press conference which was suddenly rescheduled. But it's also much more. Fairbank infuses his personal tales with the kind of clairvoyance which has distinguished him as a compassionate commentator as well as pioneer historian. With his first-hand familiarity with the U.S. effort to aid Chiang Kai-shek's regime, he describes his concern for increasingly confused...