Word: jeeping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During weeks of hit-and-run sniping, the Viet Cong Communists ran up an impressive score. Two National Assembly Deputies were shot dead in a Jeep outside Banmethuot. A bus was dynamited. Several district chiefs were wounded. Fortnight ago, eight Vietnamese Catholic priests were kidnaped. The old pattern of isolated terror seemed to be reasserting itself, and Vietnamese morale sank steadily...
...faded khakis, splash through the marshes of the Mekong Delta or dart silently along jungle paths of South Viet Nam, pursuing their intent, murderous missions. On the road from Banmethuot last week, one band melted into the shadows as two members of the National Assembly approached in their Jeep. Then, at a signal from their leader, they raised their ancient rifles, clubs and swords and pounced with bloodcurdling cries. Seconds later, the two assemblymen lay dead, and the grim struggle to keep the Communists from winning South Viet Nam had claimed two more victims...
...from his staff, unceremoniously sacked one senior colonel for failing to act boldly. A stickler for discipline, Taylor once gave a lieutenant a medal for a dangerous patrol and simultaneously fined him $50 for not being clean-shaven. Taylor was harder on himself than anyone, making personal reconnaissances by Jeep, risking injury unnecessarily by sitting stubbornly at a staff table while shells fell in the courtyard outside...
Purple Band-Aid. A three-stripe sergeant, Mauldin soon had the prerogatives of a general. He cruised the front in his own Jeep-a gift from Lieut. General Mark Clark-twice as famous, and twice as welcome, as any other visitor outside of Marlene Dietrich. He liberated artist's material where he could find it: in Italy he often sketched on the backs of the Mussolini portraits that hung in most Italian homes. "I was no hero," says Mauldin. "I wasn't leading a perilous life." But he got close enough to the shooting to be superficially injured...
...Lawrence graduate whom Mauldin met at a Manhattan party after the war, has learned not to talk to Bill at bedtime, when his glazed eyes tell her he has fallen into an inspirational mood. The neighbors are used to the predawn roar of Mauldin's 14-year-old Jeep; he is off to the paper to make some suddenly visualized change in his cartoon...