Word: bumper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Practice. Concentrating 30,000 troops on a half-mile front, the Chinese mauled a regiment of the R.O.K. 1st Division, broke through and fanned out, threatening an adjacent U.S. division from the rear. Then the planned Allied retreat began. Once more, the bumper-to-bumper vehicle columns rolled south. It was a scorched-earth retreat: the troops and the aircraft burned every building in which the pursuing foe could take shelter...
...disorder. But the tempo of the operation stepped up sharply. At the docks themselves, U.S., Norwegian and Japanese merchant ships took on load after load of trucks, tanks, gasoline, rations, dismantled aircraft, jeeps, tents and kitchen stoves. The black, mud-choked roads within the dock area were jammed bumper to bumper with mud-spattered supply trains grinding and slithering down to the ships. The supply convoys passed acres of gasoline drums, quarter-mile-long warehouses piled high with C-rations, soap, lard, coffee and fruit juices. G.I. and Korean stevedores ate steadily all day long, casually hacked open...
...battered but not broken Eighth Army rolled south, with vehicle columns bumper-to-bumper on the roads and a million refugees alongside. Trucks and jeeps that broke down were not repaired -they were shoved off the road and burned. Said a reconnaissance pilot, looking down on the dreary spectacle of U.S. defeat and retreat: "This hurts. It hurts where I can't scratch...
Since the war, Italy has been proud of its bumper crop of novelists, painters and sculptors. Considering the lively output,* Italians have a right to be. Last week, as a high point in Venice's 13th International Festival of Contemporary Music, Italians listened with expectation to the latest work of three of Italy's younger generation of composers. If festivalgoers thought they would find any one strong new current, they were disappointed. The so-called "Roman Group" in modern Italian music seemed to have as many directions as it had composers...
...results of this almost incredible situation have not been catastrophic for two reasons: 1) Chiang Kai-shek's present government is definitely better in performance and public relations than any Chinese Nationalist government since the mid-1950s; 2) a bumper rice crop this year has made rural Formosans feel pretty good and allayed discontent that might otherwise have been stimulated by American statements...