Word: jeeped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...camel, jeep and helicopter, thousands of French geologists have long been prospecting the Sahara's vast lunar landscapes, some 1,000 miles from north to south and 3,000 miles from the Atlantic to the Sudan. Last week the government totted up what they found...
...Eisenhower was "not an actual battle leader [but] a sort of super military executive director." And on the theory that Lee and Meade should have equal time to reply to their critics, an editorial in the Scripps-Howard papers took the ghosts of Gettysburg's commanders on a jeep trip through the Ardennes to retrace Eisenhower-Montgomery strategy in the Battle of the Bulge. " 'An absolutely monstrous thing', said General Meade. 'I would have sacked them both,' said General...
...Sukarno and Voroshilov arrived at the presidential palace, a group of admirers swarmed toward Sukarno's Lincoln convertible. Jittery Soviet and Indonesian security officers ordered the police into action. Swinging clubs and rifle butts, the police charged the crowd. A police jeep drove head-on into one group of spectators. Enraged, the crowd counterattacked, were driven off only after army units used tear-gas bombs...
...reign, with the help of a Cabinet which he appoints and a 76-man consultative assembly which he selects. Out of a palace budget of $4,000,000, the Sultan maintains a yoman "Black Guard" and their 300 horses, keeps 35 cars ranging from a Rolls Royce to a jeep, and big villas and staffs for his two sons and the three elder daughters. Apple of her father's eye is three-year-old Lalla Amina, daughter of the Sultan's second wife, who can break up any council of state by dashing in and flinging herself into...
Korea, Sept. 6. 1950. The North Koreans have broken through the Naktong line. An American platoon is isolated, surrounded. Says the lieutenant (Robert Ryan): "We walk out." Then comes a stroke of luck. A jeep comes roaring across an open field. Passengers: a bitter, combat-weary sergeant (Aldo Ray), and his shell-shocked colonel (Robert Keith), debris of a distant battle. The lieutenant takes over the jeep at gunpoint, loads the ammo on it, forces the sergeant to march with the platoon to Hill 465. But is the divisional HQ still there...