Word: jeeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Late in the fall, he started down the Pan American Highway in a jeep with four other Americans, among them Katherine Wallis, whom MaCoy married the next year, and her mother. When the highway became impassable, MaCoy wanted to go on, but the others didn't. The others got on a train with the jeep; he invested $40 in a horse. After a day on horseback, he decided he preferred walking, sold the horse for $28. The second day he walked for 14 hours, changed his mind again. Eventually, after borrowing other mounts from a Maryknoll father...
Blood separation could answer the radiation problems with oxygen bearing red cells, disease-fighting white cells, and homorrhage-controlling platelets. No longer would doctors have to "scrap a whole jeep when only a part is needed" by using whole blood instead of a plasma fraction...
...against the Bolsheviks in 1919, in Palestine in 1935, at Dunkirk in 1940. In 1942 Gerald Templer became the youngest general in the British army, and probably the only one who was ever wounded by a grand piano. On Anzio Beach a truck loaded with loot ran into his jeep and dropped its biggest prize on the general's neck. The mishap put him in the hospital for weeks and out of active fighting for good, but Templer soon talked his way into other jobs just as suited to his toughness...
...happy electorate greeted him as the potentate he once was. As he mounted a waiting jeep, men rushed to touch his feet with their fingers. Housewives brought wheatcakes on silver plates to be blessed...
...promising economists." ¶ In Switzerland, Geneva police banned the sale of a Brooklyn-brand of bubble gum called Freedom's War. Reason: parents had been long dismayed by the pictures inside the wrappers of battle scenes in Korea (e.g., a news photographer getting shot while riding in a jeep, U.N. soldiers being hit by a hail of snipers' bullets). The gum, said Geneva's Y.M.C.A., was just too "bloodthirsty . . . There is enough warlike propaganda in the world without selling these exaggerated scenes to receptive children...