Word: jeeping
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...brought out of retirement by army juniors to head their victorious junta. General Gursel, 66, is becoming Turkey's most popular figure. A simple and conservative sort, he has forbidden display of his picture alongside Ataturk's in government offices, rides about in an open Jeep through Menderes' rural strongholds, talking to the peasants almost as if they were his children...
Tragic coincidences are not uncommon in Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo's Dominican Republic. Last week Trujillo's mouthpiece, El Cáribe, reported another: the curious case of three wellborn sisters noted for their opposition to the Dictator. They were found dead near the wreckage of a Jeep at the bottom of a 150-ft. cliff on the north coast of the tight little island. Said El Cáribe: "The accident in which Driver Rufino Cruz and the sisters Patria Mirabal de Gonzáles, Minerva Mirabal de Tavárez and Maria Teresa Mirabal de Guzman...
...three husbands were moved to a prison near Salcedo. There, after a tantalizing delay, the wives were granted permission to make a joint visit a fortnight ago. The sisters' cars had been confiscated; gratefully they accepted a stranger's offer to ride to the prison in his Jeep. On the way back, for reasons unexplained, the Jeep driver left the main highway for an unnecessary-and fatal-jounce along a desolate, cliff-edged road...
...same weapons that made life unbearable for Dictator Fulgencio Batista. Cuba's new revolutionaries are setting out to make nightmares for the new dictator. Not a day passes without a bomb explosion in Havana-a grenade tossed inside the Capitol Building, a Molotov cocktail splashed against a government Jeep. One night last week bombs exploded in a water main, a power transformer, a government-operated filling station, several shops...
FAMILY-CAR MARKET will be invaded next year by International Harvester. It will spruce up its Travel-All combination station wagon-delivery truck into a stylish suburbanite station wagon, and will introduce a new Jeep-type, four-cylinder camping wagon...