Word: jeepful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cover the Nationalist-Communist struggle. Then he found himself in the thick of the Korean War, covering the battle from the front lines. The war correspondent casualty rate was higher than in World War II, and Davies felt he was living on luck until one day when his jeep smashed into an onrushing tank. He emerged with a broken arm and a fractured skull...
...Marine Corps and of Texas and West Coast newspapering before he joined TIME. He had gone up to Korea from Hong Kong to be a combat correspondent (TIME, July 31, 1950). When Taejon fell to the Communists, Fielder left the burning ruins in the back seat of a jeep, seated next to a G.I. The jeep was hit by a burst of machine-gun fire, according to the driver, who had been ordered not to stop, and when he looked around, both Fielder and the G.I. were gone. For 18 months, Fielder was officially listed as "missing in action...
...Cairo's streets. It was no spontaneous outburst of patriots angered by the British troops who killed 46 Egyptian policemen at Ismailia the day before (TIME, Feb. 4). The riot was blueprinted and timed to the instant. Rioters struck at 220 different points within 30 minutes. Jeep-borne leaders coordinated the separate gangs, providing target directions, fuel and weapons...
...colonel, full-uniformed to campaign ribbons and kepi, attempted to argue with them. Two pistol shots rang out, a heavy club landed on the colonel's unhelmeted head, and when the skirmish was done, an Arab dagger was found plunged into his chest. The colonel walked to his jeep and died. Eight Arabs were killed and 20 wounded in the battle. At Porto Farina, a Tommy gun mowed down one gendarme from behind a cactus hedge. "I've been stationed here for five years," said one bewildered cop, "and I never thought I had an enemy...
...name of the redheaded Mademoiselle, sometimes to be found sitting helplessly in her stalled jeep on a shell-pitted frontline road, is Andree-Claire Montboisses. But the passing G.I.s who joyfully go to her rescue shout: "Hello Pepita!" Since she arrived in Korea last July, the fame of willowy, green-eyed Pepita has spread up & down 145 miles of front. A registered nurse, an ambulance driver who won the Croix de Guerre evacuating wounded under fire in Belgium in 1940, a French Resistance fighter, Andree-Claire Montboisses is assistante sociale to the commander of the French volunteer battalion. No other...