Word: jeeping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...train, boat and plane, the handsome young Harvard man beat his way through 15,000 miles of back-country Pakistan, winding up the tour last week by bouncing in a Jeep over 75 miles of mule trail to the remote Himalayan state of Hunza near the borders of Russia and Red China...
...area reported "four boys washed away," and called other casualty figures "grossly exaggerated." But last week, eleven days after the storm struck, the estimate was that the total would be "unimaginably higher'' than the 5,000 dead reported on Ramgati and Hatia alone. Getting out of his Jeep to inspect some still-standing huts in the stricken region, East Pakistan Governor Lieut. General Azam Khan observed: "People must give up living in those places...
...commission cooky-and-tobacco salesman, he grew up in Port Huron, Mich., got his U.S. citizenship after he joined the Army fresh out of high school in 1943. In the assault upon Metz, Private First Class Swainson volunteered for a night patrol, set off in a Jeep. It ran over a land mine. Of the five men in the Jeep, three were killed, one was shaken into insanity, and Swainson lost both legs below the knees. If elected, he will be the only U.S. Governor listed by the Veterans Administration as "totally and permanently disabled...
...their trooper lovers on a slumbering military post before World War II. And what she learns of life comes from Daddy's batman, a sporting type named Killer, whose off-duty kicks come from impaling jack-lighted wildlife on the iron spikes attached to the grille of his Jeep...
...President is trying to blast his way out of a sand trap." But Murrow as a humorist simply was not convincing. CBS also threw in extra cameras, rigged up arc lights, offered its reporters bonuses for scoops. When Vice President Nixon arrived at O'Hare International Airport, a Jeep-borne camera broke through the crowd; when President Eisenhower landed, a cagey CBS reporter persuaded Chicago Manufacturer William Rentschler, chairman of "Thank You Ike Day," to wear a microphone under his tie, and CBS picked up the words of Ike's greeting to the welcoming committee ("I know this...