Word: jeeped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sights and incidents along 2,000 miles of Europe's streets and roads, perhaps the most revealing was in a square in Metz where, about midnight, two Americans in a jeep paused to ask a bearded old man the road to Saarbrücken. He said he did not speak French. Nor German either. He was a Russian. One American who spoke Russian repeated the question. The old man could not help. He had fled Russia in 1920, had lived in Poland till 1939. When the Germans took it, he went to Germany. Later he drifted into France...
Kansans had thought that Democrat Harry Woodring was finished with public life when Franklin Roosevelt fired him in 1941. He went home to Topeka, lived quietly, invested in a soft-drink company, got a jeep agency. He tatted expertly, joyfully did the housework during the maid shortage, attended antique auctions, where he bid fiercely in competition with society matrons. One night a week he played bridge with Alf Landon and two other Republicans. This summer's polio epidemic dealt him a cruel blow-two of his three children contracted the disease; son Marcus, 12, died, daughter Melissa, 11, recovered...
More & more people were drifting into banditry and into U Aung San's nationalist, loud, leftist Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League. Last week, Aung San paraded through Rangoon in a jeep, waving a red flag, while thousands of ragged Burmans shouted: "Down with the Government!" Few Burmans really wanted violence, but a British officer estimated that there were enough weapons hidden in the country for a "long and bloody struggle." The crucial factor would be the size of next November's rice crop. Now Burmans chanted an old verse with new, ominous meaning...
General Douglas MacArthur politely shook hands with old General Emilio Aguinaldo (76), who, for independence, fought MacArthur's father in 1899. Now Filipinos had their independence. Said a Filipino jeep driver: "It feels good." The Manila Bulletin greeted sovereignty with a reservation that older, larger nations might find appropriate: "It is for the Philippines, no less than every other country which wishes to preserve peace, to sacrifice a portion of sovereignty, that is to say, the privilege of doing as it pleases, in the common good...
...game hunter in pith helmet, khaki shorts and orange jacket stalked along the railroad platform. His prey: Princeton men, Class of 1925. His quarry was expressed by jeep or taxi to class headquarters-in a vacant lot on University Place, decked out now like a carnival site...