Word: jeeping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hunted bustards with jeep-mounted .50s and .45s . . . None of us ever saw them fly. They walk or run their 20 or 30 miles daily to a water hole. When cornered, they courageously face away from you, elevate their posteriors to the proper altitude, and zero in ... To us Desert Rats, they were known by a name other than, but somewhat similar to, bustard...
...excited and hopeful man, Dr. Gardiner Bump of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, was driving busily around Washington last week in a specially equipped jeep, preparing for the most interesting job of his career. In the next week or so Dr. Bump, his son Robert and his jeep will head for the Near East to look for new game birds which will be used to restock the depleted U.S. Southwest...
...were naked. Each of the seven Akharas (orders) had its painted elephant, and at the head of each order rode its leader, shaded by a red umbrella. Six of the leaders were in palanquins carried by six men; the chief of the rough, tough Bairagi order rode in a jeep...
...group rented six 15-foot aluminum canoes in Cambridge, and used them for the actual travelling. For carrying duffles and portaging the canoes, however, it employed a small pick-up truck and a Jeep station wagon...
Ananda liked to drive a jeep around the palace grounds, and he liked to play with guns. One day he fell sick. His mother brought him some castor oil and left him alone to sleep. A few hours later, Ananda was found dead in his bed, a pistol beside him and a bullet through his head...