Word: jeeped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sunday and, through all the last stages of the advance on Rome, U.S. and Canadian soldiers could hear the church bells summoning the faithful to Mass. TIME Correspondent Will Lang had spent the night in a dugout under fire. At dawn he piled out and headed up in a jeep toward the sound of firing on Via Casilina. He cabled...
Beyond the din of jeep-ridden Algiers, in the airy Moorish hall of the foremost seminary for colonial jeunes filles, General Charles de Gaulle and his troubled colleagues of the French Committee of National Liberation debated the signs of an approaching catastrophe...
Dictator Arroyo del Rio resigned, sought refuge in the Colombian Embassy. A provisional junta promptly invited Velasco Ibarra to take over. The exile promptly accepted, rode into Quito in a Lend-Lease jeep. With vivas and flowers, 50,000 Quitenos welcomed their new President. On a balcony overlooking Independence Square, Velasco Ibarra proclaimed...
...Italy's rugged mountains, mules and horses can go where a jeep can not go. So these animals, worth a few hundred dollars each in the U.S., are priceless in Italy. Each pack train has its own veterinarian to give first aid. He also decides which wounded animals must be shot, which can be hospitalized. The wounded are moved to the rear, usually tied between healthy animals. Then they are shipped in trucks to the base hospital, an abandoned farm.* There a concrete-floored paddock serves as a ward for wounded and a few sick animals (mules sometimes suffer...
Marlene Dietrich, currently conquering the otherwise unconquerable Fighting French on the Italian front, was returning from a hospital show when she spotted two French officers struggling with an overturned jeep, promptly put her khaki-colored legs to work; helped straighten things...