Word: jeeping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...special Jeep fitted with a hand rail, Johnson and Westmoreland reviewed the troops, then proceeded to a flat-bed truck draped with blue-and-white bunting and fitted out as a speakers' stand. On the stand were Ky, Thieu and Lodge, who had arrived earlier. Before he began to speak, Johnson handed out three Distinguished Service Crosses, a Navy Cross (the nation's second highest decorations, after the Medal of Honor) and a Silver Star to five...
...under the bunk bed clear against the wall. I stayed under the bed for hours and hours." Throughout the terror-filled night she lay frozen with fear, not knowing whether the murderer was still in the house or gone. At 5 a.m., an alarm clock went off (a hospital Jeep was due to pick the girls up at 6:30 to take them to work), and slowly ran down. After summoning her courage, the lone survivor wriggled free of her bonds. Stumbling over her classmates' corpses, too afraid to venture downstairs, she beat out a front bedroom screen, crawled...
Much of the world got a good look at what the Americans had accomplished when they arrived as conquerors in 1945. To Asia, the Americans brought the Jeep, the candy bar, K rations, portable laundries, health units and toilet paper-but they also planted in Asians an awareness of and a desire for much more. To Europe, they brought $46 billion in aid, food and clothes and massive Marshall Plan reconstruction loans. The presence of hundreds of thousands of obviously prosperous, obviously confident American soldiers in Germany alone unconsciously created an image that was far more lasting and effective than...
...unknown outside the army. Whereas Sukarno has had at least six wives and seven children, Suharto has only one wife and six children. Sukarno drove around in a motorcade of screaming sirens (which Djakartans refer to as his "mating call"), while Suharto went about his duties in a Japanese Jeep. Suharto was more than the President had bargained...
...seemed a quiet afternoon in Tra Khe village near Danang as U.S. Marine Sergeant James Dodson, 23, of York, Pa., went out on patrol. He passed out candy and C rations, took the village children for a ride in his Jeep, helped with such chores as rice harvesting and mashing. Suddenly he was slugged from behind. When he regained consciousness, he was being trussed, like some modern Gulliver, by six Viet Cong, who led him off into the jungle...