Word: jeeped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pioneers. In Long Beach, Calif., Johnny Kunakoff was persuaded to beach his seagoing jeep and surrender to two motorcycle cops, who made possibly the first arrest for drunken amphibious driving...
...year's performance is unusually well-leavened with foreign stars, for now with the war over they have a chance to leave the confusion of Europe and gain the quiet security of the high wire and trapeze. Another influence of the modern scene is a display involving a Junior Jeep, not to mention the tragicomic clown skit with a bright black Atom Smasher. One clown climbs in the machine and...the rest can be imagined...
...other Jews who apparently were wounded fatally in the raid were found dead in a jeep near Acre...
...appeals to a Swede. But he will likely find a credit account in heaven for the magnificence of his achievements." In Paris, the Socialists were harder on him. Said Pierre Mignot, a biology teacher: "His Taylor* system marks the beginning of modern slavery." Paris youngsters (who belong to the jeep, not the tin-Lizzie era) did not even know his name, and many an oldster shuddered at it. Said grey-haired Gaston, headwaiter at Lavrue's: " Voyez-vous, Monsieur Ford gave us speed. In the old days, Parisians drove their four-in-hands around the boulevards at a civilized...
...acid was thrown. Communists dashed through the streets of Rangoon in a green jeep, shouting: "Rebellion, rebellion! Rise, rise!" A couple of polling booths outside the city were burned. The only bloodshed in Rangoon occurred when a constable accidentally discharged a shotgun into his foot...