Word: jeeped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Army Jeep slows as it corners on a bumpy, narrow forest road. From the back seat, two wild-eyed German SS troopers lunge uncertainly, then bolt for the nearby wood. A pistol crackles, and the running Germans plop forward on their faces. They were shot while attempting to escape, reports the U.S. Army lieutenant who gunned them down. Not so, insists a civilian witness: the troopers had been commanded to bolt and then were callously murdered. Getting at the truth turns out to be like peeling through several skins of an onion. First-Novelist Frederick Keefe, who is an editor...
Suddenly a Jeep with a Red Cross blazon roared up. Driven by a young Vietnamese with his head swathed in bandages, it carried a Buddhist monk and a young girl with a bandaged arm. They had a message: the press was invited to Tinh Hoi at once for an announcement. Grabbing cameras and note pads, some 35 newsmen set out for the pagoda, passing first through government lines, then the firing pits of the Tinh Hoi compound filled with rebel soldiers. Among them were TIME Correspondents Karsten Prager and William McWhirter...
Slacks & Sneakers. His notion of nation building is by no means all panoply andante. Their Majesties make frequent forays into remote areas of Thailand. The King often drives his own Jeep and carries their lunch in a pack on his back. On these sorties, Queen Sirikit appears to be one of the few world beauties who look delicately lovely in slacks and thick rubber sneakers. And it has not affected...
...absorbed in a titanium target. As the deuterium particles collide, they release neutrons that are channeled into a beam that can cover a two-square-foot area of ground. The entire device, including the recording instruments, is small and light enough to be carried in the back of a Jeep. It has already been given trials in the field...
...they had in the union. In its first two years it loaned $150,000, which brought the town, among other items, its first X-ray machine and modern dental equipment. Convinced that there was no "better way for the people to help themselves," Father Dan criss-crossed Peru by Jeep, plane and riverboat, set up more nonprofit unions. To date, his unions have loaned a total of $59 million for purchases of everything from outboard motors to fertilizer...