Word: jeeped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...twisting mountain road along which all vehicles, including his own and the pursuing Japanese, must travel. The road is an undulating mass of Chinese refugees moving in grim lockstep with fear, famine and misery. In their eyes, the Americans are the dei ex machina shielded from fatality by the jeep, the SCR-300 radio and the K-ration...
...lighting a cigar, said nothing, and waved to the soldiers as we went on." Closer to the mountains, Halper hid in a farmhouse while a sugar-cane train chuffed by, guarded by soldiers riding the cowcatcher. In the foothills he changed to a rebel jeep for the rough ride to Fidel Castro's headquarters. Halper spent three days with Castro and his ragged, fanatic followers. For the eyewitness report, see HEMISPHERE, This Man Castro...
Well after dark, in a thundering rain, the rebels' jeep stopped in front of a big, wooden-walled barn with a palm-thatched roof. I hurried inside and blinked at an extraordinary scene: an old woman tending grandchildren, rebel troops milling around, guitarists strumming, and under a dim kerosene lamp, rocking in a chair, surrounded by kids seated on upturned 5-gal. cans, the bearded Rebel Castro. In the next days and nights, always on the move, I talked at length to Fidel Castro and got a thorough look at his ragtag, fanatic force...
...world and give Heir Andrea a chance in this one, have sapped the prince's fibers; he pines feebly for "real" life. When the U.S. Army liberates the Ferentino village during World War II, Andrea's dream all but comes true: he flies away on a magic jeep as an Italian interpreter, worships the most ordinary G.I.s, shapes wonderful plans for starting a new life in Montana. With war's end Andrea's dream fades away, leaving him and Kitty to fall back into their old doldrums. This affecting little story is full of understanding...
...Remada in southern Tunisia the French army gave yet another demonstration of its irresponsibility. Angered at the destruction of a French jeep and the wounding of two Frenchmen by a land mine planted on Remada Airstrip, the local French commander promptly seized the senior Tunisian official in the area, held him incommunicado for twelve hours. This high-handed treatment of a government official in his own country provoked a new wave of Tunisian anger...