Word: jeeped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deliberations went on in the yellow stucco Joint General Staff GHQ, a loudspeaker Jeep appeared at Buddhist headquarters, warned of imminent Catholic reprisals; that night the Jeep toured Catholic quarters, warned of Buddhist hordes. No one bothered to get the rumormongers' names, but both sides took the alarms seriously...
...streets, even ordered Bukavu's bartenders not to serve them alcohol. He issued a stern warning to Bukavu's provincial president that local police brutality must end, personally ransacked a block of houses in which several murderous cops were thought to be hiding. Riding in an open Jeep, he inspected nearby communities, stopping long enough to organize temporary local governments in each. "I intend to maintain law and order," said Mulamba. It was a forlorn intention in the present Congo...
CHRYSLER'S "car of the future" looks like a giant whitewashed Jeep, is 34 ft. high, has genuine bucket seats, and a lot of clabberdash on the dash. The whole show pokes fun at auto-mania, is one of the sprightliest in the transportation area...
...Huey" choppers, cigar-chomping U.S. Army pilots at the controls, shatters the morning calm with a roar of cranked-up motors and the whip-whip-whip of whirling rotors. In Quang Due province, the local American adviser, a Negro captain, jounces along a red-dust path in his familiar Jeep, packing a .45 on his hip and speaking Vietnamese with a Basin Street beat. In a sandbagged patrol base in Binh Duong province, a U.S. captain sprawls in a hammock, exhausted after a night's march, a carbine across his belly and a can of Schlitz in his hand...
...adviser's" role is not easy. Last week five more U.S. servicemen died in Viet Nam-two Army officers and an Air Force captain killed when an electric mine was detonated under their Jeep; an Army major shot dead by guerrillas in broad daylight in a village ten miles from Saigon; another major caught by machine-gun fire that raked his Vietnamese Ranger battalion. The roll of American dead would grow at a swifter pace as reinforcements arrived. Said a senior U.S. official in Saigon dryly: "When you put more people in a zone traversed by enemy bullets, your...