Word: jeeped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Riding about the pitiful ruins and damp, weedy shambles of recaptured Manila, G.I. jeep drivers used to refer to the Kweezon Bridge, Kweezon Boulevard, etc. However they mangled the name, sharp, dapper, bantam-sized Manuel Luis Quezon, (rhymes with stays on), late President of the Commonwealth, left his mark on the Philippines...
...mayoral and congressional candidates. Sound trucks blared the notes of a conga, then broke out with political exhortations. In the Parque Central, dusky ti-1.trope performers attracted a crowd, then made campaign speeches from their precarious perches. In the sweltering evening, a great neon campaign sign, towed by an amphibious jeep, swam ghostlike along the harbor front...
...mountain road from Grenoble to Marseilles was soggy from the spring rain. An American jeep skidded on a curve, crashed against a tree and overturned. Its driver, an American more loved in France than known in the U.S., was instantly killed. His name was Bravig Wilbur Eugene Imbs...
...brought nervous rumors: of masked bands hijacking voting boxes in Santa Rosa; of ink poured over ballots in Cavite. And there were some bloody facts: Governor Ramon Imperial of Camarines Sur Province was wounded by gunfire; a 62-year-old Pampanga supporter of Osmena was hauled from a jeep and murdered by machine-gun fire in a rice field...
...freely. Last week Marines in Sasebo forced Teacher Yoshiki Matsumoto to stand before 1,000 pupils of Waifu Primary School to retract his unfounded charge that a G.I. in a jeep deliberately ran over and killed ten Jap children...