Word: jeeped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Clark is lean, tall (6 ft. 2 in.) and rangy. When they are afoot, U.S. generals are expected to stride, not amble; Clark strides. In the European theater, fraternization with troops was a vogue; Clark went swimming and played baseball with soldiers. He takes care always to ask his jeep driver's name, and to shake his hand. Accessibility was another vogue; Clark had the inevitable sign on his door that read: "Enter, don't knock...
...Orient by missionary parents, was U.S. consul at Tihwa, in China's far western Sinkiang province, when Communist armies began pressing close. With his wife, an ex-Army nurse, the embassy staff and their wives & children, he started the long trek out by truck and jeep, through the depths of the sweltering Turfan Depression, and across the 18,300-ft. Karakoram Pass, until they made safety in a Kashmir village...
...Tokyo staff. Hutton, who claims to be virtually indestructible in wars, flew 23 missions as a gunner before D-day in World War II, later made a parachute jump at the Rhine ("I got jarred around a little bit, that's all"), and came out unscathed when his jeep was forced off the road by a truck in Korea...
...voice. He was deathly sick, lying on a bed of pain, and he wanted to be sure the papers reported it. The next afternoon the phones rang again. At that very moment Cairo lay enshrouded in smoke and echoing to sirens as a feverish anti-foreign mob, directed by jeep-borne leaders on a precise timetable, fired $300 million worth of foreign property and took some 60 lives (TIME, Feb. 11). It was Ahmed again. He was still in bed, terribly sick, and wasn't it awful what was happening...
...taken to Van Fleet's simple friendliness-and military bluntness-as eagerly as did the Greeks. On the anniversary, some 40,000 drizzle-soaked Koreans lined Seoul's shell-cratered streets, waving flags and shouting "Long live Van Fleet!" as the general passed by in an open jeep. Beaming, Van Fleet accepted a small Korean flag from a school child in the crowd, rode the remainder of the route waving the flag. At a reception, President Syngman Rhee presented Van Fleet with a poem he had written. Excerpts...