Word: jeeped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...well have a Republican on his right as well as his left." ··· Stoically stowing away an on-the-run diet of rice trimmed with goat intestines, chicken heads and "thousand-day-old" eggs, Peace Corps Director R. Sargent Shriver, 46, roughed his way by helicopter and Jeep through a 25-day, 10,000-mile tour of the Philippines, Thailand, Malaya, Sarawak and North Borneo to see how his troops were faring. He found them hard at work-so hard that at one Filipino hamlet he got a message from four volunteers saying: "Sorry...
...report on French political and economic developments. Another World War II veteran who served in the same organization recalls reporting for duty, determined to be unimpressed by the Rockefeller name; but his resistance melted when David met him at the airport and carried his suitcase to a waiting jeep. (To this day David makes a fetish of carrying other people's bags for them.) After his Army discharge, David, now 30, began wondering what career to follow. The decision had in fact been made ten years before during a weekend visit to the Ottawa home of an old Rockefeller family...
...four days, Algeria reeled through the delirium of independence. When Premier Benyoussef Benkhedda of the F.L.N. Provisional Government arrived in Algiers, he was hailed by a half-million cheering Moslems waving green-white-and-red flags. Benkhedda was swept from his Jeep, borne shoulder-high through the ecstatic crowd, losing his habitual dark glasses on the way. But behind the cheers and the swirling flags lay a new threat to the tortured country. Now that the terror campaign waged by the Secret Army against the Moslems had at long last subsided, the Moslems began to fight among themselves, haunted...
Among the U.S. products still standing watch over their good names, still demanding Upper-Case billing in news stories, novels and shopping columns: Erector Set, Band-Aid, Dixie cup, JellO, Jeep, Laundromat, Kleenex. Deepfreeze, Levi's (blue jeans). Dry Ice, Simoniz, Spray Net and Zipper...
...first loyal National Guard units that tried to move into the city of Puerto Cabello were chopped to pieces by cleverly emplaced .50 cal. machine guns. The government grimly gathered reinforcements-a company of paratroopers, artillerymen with mortars and Jeep-mounted 106-mm. recoilless rifles, 20 French AMX light tanks, 3,000 regular army troops...