Word: jeeped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a quick inspection of his duck pond (pop. 37 mallards, three wooden ducks), Ike summoned a strange-looking vehicle that looked like a cross between a jeep and a surrey. Over its open top was a fringed canopy; the words "Ike" and "Mamie" were painted on the front fenders. The car, a little Crosley, was presented to Ike a year ago by an anonymous friend for use as a golf buggy. But it proved too big for golf, on a field test at Burning Tree, and was retired to the farm. Ike climbed aboard, was driven to another barn...
...Thai beach resort of Hua Hin, 85 miles southwest of Bangkok, for lunch. It was a holiday outing, a lark for the boys, and just the occasion for Peurifoy to open up with his prized Thunderbird. He gunned it up to 70 m.p.h. and left his four-jeep police escort behind. They were used...
...jeep crashed through the Gallieni's doors, the commission's members, along with two Communist Viet Minh liaison officers, retreated to the roof, blocking the stairs with beds and desks. The rioters assaulted the barricade, but fell back before police-thrown tear bombs...
Instead of obliging, the crowd began pelting him with flowers. A jeep clattered by. Nehru leaped aboard and began deftly fielding the tossed bouquets and flinging them back at the crowd. Smiling broadly, the great pacifier was just beginning to enjoy this warlike game when a particularly heavy garland caught him square on the head and dropped him into the jeep's seat...
Last week Casmir Andrews, 40, walked briskly from a red jeep station wagon into a modernistic new building in downtown Toledo: the Diagnostic Clinic of the Willys Unit. Local 12, United Auto Workers. So far as Andrews knew, there was nothing wrong with him. That was the point. He was going in for a thorough physical checkup, an exhaustive 1½-hour going over by doctors, with half a dozen or more lab tests to follow. At going rates for Toledo doctors' and medical labs, this would cost anywhere from $150 to $200. Shop Steward Andrews...