Word: jeep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THERE IS A remarkable scene in the Belgian documentary Revolution or Death, in which a jeep full of El Salvadorean soldiers drives up to an outdoor meeting of peasants. The soldiers hop out of the jeep and at the order of their commanding officer, open fire on the unarmed group of men, women and children. When the gathering has been dispersed, and a number of its participants maimed or murdered, a soldier takes a machine gun out of the jeep and places it in the arms of a dead man. Then the soldiers take pictures...
Charles Jackson, a Manhattan journalist, swore off after wartime accidents in which he hurtled in a Jeep against the wall of a crowded Army orderly room and later slammed a 2½-ton truck through the imposing Sterling Gate at Fort Sill, Okla. ("There wasn't enough left of it to make matchsticks.") Nowadays he rides splendidly in the back seat of the family Buick, while his wife does the driving...
...after Panorama roared through San Bernardino, Mail Carrier Kathy Holland stopped her Jeep at a charred and empty lot on Sepulveda Avenue. "God, that one's gone too," she sighed, as she returned yet another packet of mail to her pouch. An engineer who came back to sift through the ashes of his home found his Thanksgiving turkey, frozen before the fire, charred to a crisp in the freezer. Another victim, Tony Marzullo, attempted to salvage humor from tragedy by spraying a For Sale-Cheap sign on what used to be a freezer and propping it up on what...
With its new money, AMC will now be better positioned to complete plans to introduce a new car or Jeep model every six months from now through 1985, thereby offering customers twice the variety that the Big Three automakers have traditionally provided. For the present at least, the firm that might more accurately be called Franco-American Motors has been saved by le bailout...
...fire incinerates four others, their lone escape route sealed by cinder blocks. When a rancher named Clem Anderson gets his coffin in the mail, its meaning is clear. But after a few sleepless weeks, Clem forgets to worry. Authorities find his body lying in a ditch near his overturned jeep. A razorsharp wire strung between a tree and a telephone pole has severed his head as Clem drove down his ranch road at dusk...