Word: jeeped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other side of the world Harry Zinder datelined his cable "On the Road to Berlin" and told of a day's advance with General Dempsey's Second Army north of the Ruhr. "I was out in the open in a jeep in the middle of a convoy of specially armored tanks. Snipers were still present in all the villages we passed through, since nothing had been cleared. Through the night the Germans shelled our column with their 88s, and were registering as well with heavy caliber guns. But regardless of the guns the column pushed through...
...parachuting and gliding. His first jump came off without incident; his first glider ride characteristically ended in a rousing wreck, from which he jumped clear, ending up bruised in body and dignity, but professionally impressed with the way the ungainly box kite could put down a whole squad, jeep or gun in one place...
...districts not one street was untouched, not a single house undamaged. The outer areas of the city were 85% destroyed, the center 95% rubble. TIME Correspondent Sidney Olson, who went in with the first troops, cabled: "The first impression was that of silence and emptiness. When we stopped the jeep you heard nothing, you saw no movement down the great deserted avenues lined with empty stone boxes. We looked vainly for people. In a city of 700,000 no one now seemed alive. But there were people, perhaps some 120,000 of them. They had gone underground. They live...
...went down the absolutely lonely and deserted street through the ranks of neat and excellent two-story stone buildings, the kind of street that gives you that terribly lonely, naked feeling of snipers and trouble around you, the kind of street out of which you back your jeep at top speed without taking time to turn around...
After reading the issue of TIME (Nov. 20) in which you tell of the jeep-operated Myitkyina Mogaung railroad, I thought you would be interested in seeing a ticket on that important transportation line...