Word: jeeped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thirds of a Jeep. Petersen concedes that his campaign may not get anywhere "for a long time." Nevertheless, his magazines wield far-reaching influence. By popularizing cars with lower lines and such avant-garde gimmicks as fuel injection systems and dual exhausts, the magazines help stimulate demand for engineering and styling refinements in assembly-line autos (which are rigorously road-tested each year by the editors). In addition, Publisher Petersen, himself an auto mechanic's son, has been a major factor in building a new, $15 million-a-year market for manufacturers of esoteric auto accessories ranging from racing...
...minutes later a crisp, careful military movement put the nine Negro children safely into Central High School. A jeep rolled through the barricade at 16th Street and Park Avenue, followed by an Army station wagon and another jeep. The Negroes piled out of the station wagon. Three platoons came on the double across the school grounds, deployed in strategic positions. Another platoon lined up on either side of the Negroes, escorted them inside the building. There was dead silence around Central High School...
...Born. In picking a new name for his "general market" station, Tannen combed the dictionary before deciding that WEEP held all sorts of possibilities: "A surefire slogan: 'WEEP for joy.' I can call myself the WEEP veep; we'll have a traveling car called the WEEP jeep; and, my God, think of what we can say when we sign off: 'And now, for the next twelve hours you won't hear a peep out of WEEP...
Nearly six months ago, when U.S.-educated (Pennsylvania's Lincoln University) Kwame Nkrumah joyously proclaimed "Ghana is free," 50,000 of his Gold Coast countrymen cheered him to the skies. Last week, pulling up to Accra's National Assembly building in a new Rolls-Royce, flanked by jeep outriders, golden-tongued Premier Nkrumah jovially waved a handkerchief to the surrounding crowd and waited for the customary applause. What he got instead was a thunderous hooting-the beginning of two days of rioting in Accra, which brought 100 arrests...
When U.S. troops rolled up to Villa Hugel in 1945. Alfried Krupp came downstairs, protesting (in English) that he was merely a businessman. The Americans disagreed. He was bundled into a jeep and driven off through the rubble-strewn streets to be interrogated...