Word: jeeped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Illinois. There was little doubt that arch-isolationist Senator "Curly" Brooks would easily defeat the Democrats' leftish Paul Douglas, who ignored the party regulars, doggedly waged a futile one-man campaign from his station-wagon jeep. But the Republicans' handsome playboy, Governor Dwight Green, was facing real opposition from political amateur Adlai Stevenson (TIME, March 8).Backed by the nominally independent (but actually pro-Republican) Chicago Daily News, with the full support of other papers as far away as the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Candidate Stevenson was hitting hard at graft, shakedowns and kickbacks in the state administration...
...student picketers leave from in front of Harvard Hall at 6:45 a.m. in a jeep and a trailer rendezvousing with other Greater Boston Y.P.A.'s at their intown headquarters. The demonstration is set for a half hour, beginning at 7:30 a.m. and will feature singing by HCW chairman Richard Stone...
Then a German police car and a U.S. MP jeep arrived (they had been summoned by an indignant neighbor who had finally decided to inform the authorities of the goings-on at Frau Lehrte's). The Russian jerked himself erect. Forgetting his motorcycle, he walked off in the direction of the Soviet zone. But when he saw a second U.S. jeep pull up, he ducked behind a tree, raised his rifle and fired four quick shots. German and U.S. police flung themselves behind the parked cars; the Russian slipped away. A German policeman, wounded...
...minutes later, in Jerusalem's Katamon quarter (formerly an Arab residential district, now held by Israeli forces), the Count's cream-colored Chrysler was stopped at a roadblock. From a jeep stepped two men in Israeli army uniforms, carrying Sten guns. While U.S. Colonel Frank Begley (a U.N. observer who drove the Count's car) grappled with one of the men, the other looked into the car, recognized the Count, shoved his gun through the window and started shooting. The bullets went straight through the ribbons on Bernadotte's uniform. Said General Lundstrom, who sat beside...
Also hit (17 times) was Colonel Andre P. Serot, a French member of the U.N. truce mission. He was killed instantly. Bernadotte, still breathing, was rushed to nearby Hadassah Hospital, where he died. The assailants got away in their jeep...