Word: jeeped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...afternoon in July, 1945, Guderian requested permission to be taken for a drive through the German countryside. Agreeing, Ford--and a couple of soldiers--piled into a jeep and took him for a ride. All along the way, Germans stopped and came to attention when they saw the great man. "Had the war still been on," Ford muses, "we would have been court-martialed for this, but after the war we got information any way we could...
...night last week. Consulting his written orders, he marched with an armed guard to the death row of Havana's gloomy Cabana Fortress, brought out three former policemen, all convicted in military courts on charges of murder. A short ride in a bus and a jeep brought Marks, the guards, a priest and the prisoners to within 200 feet of an old moat, 20 feet deep and surrounded on three sides by high stone walls. A six-man firing squad waited on a spot worn bare of grass...
...although under California law he may not marry the other woman, Actress Elizabeth Taylor, until the divorce becomes final after a year. But freedom's price was high. Debbie kept: a Palm Springs ranch, seven life insurance policies, three bank accounts, a Lincoln, the family camping equipment, a Jeep equipped for uranium prospecting, title to their $125,000 West Los Angeles home; got custody of and support for their two children, alimony of $36,000 for a start, dropping to $10,000 if she reweds. Federal law will let Eddie list the alimony as a tax deduction over...
...change was the grisly rhythm of revenge. The trials and executions went on. At Havana's 195-year-old La Cabaña fortress, death has long since fallen into repetitious routine. The condemned man leaves his cell some time between i a.m. and 3 a.m. An army Jeep takes him through the darkness to the weed-grown bottom of the 20-ft.-deep moat. Against a stone wall, he invariably refuses a blindfold, asks permission to command the firing squad standing six paces away. He asks the squad to aim for the heart, avoid the face. "Fire...
...friends, raised $20,000 for guns and contraband army uniforms. At dawn on July 26. 1953, Fidel Castro led a column of 13 cars to the walls of Santiago's bristling Moncada barracks, a yellow stone pile where 1,000 Batista troops lay sleeping. A suspicious Jeep patrol came up. Castro, then 26, stepped out, raised his twelve-gauge shotgun and shot his first man. "That was the mistake," he recalls. "I had told them all to do what I did, and they all opened fire." The attack was stopped cold; Batista's cops rounded up and shot...