Word: jeeped
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Waiting at a stop sign in his ’95 Jeep Grand Cherokee, the Brighton native spots a friend and fellow foot soldier standing in front of Claverly. They exchange tickets and money through the window, and Welch attempts to convince him to ignore his cold and come to The Party...
...Dara Singh, 40, along with 12 accomplices; for the 1999 murders of Australian missionary Graham Staines, 58, and his two sons, aged 12 and 8; in Bhubaneswar, India. In January 1999, Singh, allegedly a member of the pro-Hindu youth group Bajrang Dal, led a mob that surrounded the Jeep containing the three sleeping Staineses and burned them alive...
...Traveling toward what was once the demilitarized zone, our supply jeep is stopped by police, who demand 100,000 dong (about $7) to let us continue. Mr. Truong is reflective. "Corruption is a problem in our country," he admits. Still, moving around is easier than it used to be. Mr. Truong remembers when even ordinary Vietnamese needed permission to leave their villages-before the 1986 doi moi reforms that slowly opened up the country. "Now we have a better life," he says...
...Party member. He's just an anxious guy with unfortunate hair. He also doesn't know how to work a manual clutch-though he never admits to it. Our Vietnamese colleague Mai, tired after six days on the road, asks him to ride her Minsk while she takes the jeep. The going is particularly mountainous, and heading uphill Mr. Truong keeps getting stuck between gears. We pass him several times: he's frantically trying to keep from stalling, strands of hair escaping his helmet...
...Later that day, I hired a jeep and driver for the 34-kilometer journey back to Munnar; we also drove into what turned out to be the day's high point. The first sign of the latter was a long and honking traffic jam?not the kind of thing you expect in up-country Kerala. But as I leaned out of the window, the source of the disruption became clear. For there on the road in front of us was a lone, enraged bull elephant...