Word: jeeped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sultan rides outside the palace walls to cut the ram's throat.* The new Sultan prudently preferred the safety of a mosque inside the palace grounds. Carefully, he thrust his knife into the animal's throat, then stood back while the carcass was placed on a jeep and rushed off to the palace. The tradition is that if the sacrificial sheep arrives at the palace alive, the land will be blessed. A few minutes later came word from the palace: "The animal arrived still breathing...
...Migros also provides evening schools for adults, runs a book club with 37,000 members, distributes long-playing records at discounts of 42% to 50%, publishes the Zurich daily Die Tat (circ. 35,000), has helped finance such Swiss movies as Marie-Louise, The Last Chance, Four in a Jeep and Heidi...
KAISER-WILLYS is on the auction block, may be broken up and sold piecemeal. President Edgar Kaiser offered it to Chrysler Corp., but was turned down. Chrysler has shown interest in the money-making jeep business and Packard in the Maywood (Calif.) assembly plant. But nobody seems to want Kaiser-Willys as a package. The sale is being forced by continuous losses and the fact that Henry J., now 72, needs son Edgar on the West Coast to help run the rest of the Kaiser empire...
...queens builds her nest in the hold of a freighter, but is destroyed when the ship is sunk by naval gunfire. When the other and her brood are traced to the 700 miles of sewer conduit that crisscross beneath metropolitan Los Angeles, martial law is declared, and a jeep-borne army contingent roars in to wipe the things...
...they'd share their last bit of grub with you. But they wouldn't go to jail for you, or accept an insult," he says with a leathery grin. "The modern cowboy, good man that he is, is not my sort of fellow, jiggling about in a jeep through a West expertly policed and bustling with fences...