Word: bumpered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...member Transport Workers Union. The 134 miles of subway tubes, normally jammed daily with 4.6 million passengers, stretched silent and empty beneath the city; the 2,200 buses that daily haul one and a half million people over 554 miles of New York streets sat in bumper-to-bumper immobility in vast parking lots around town...
...Eternal City has always had an eternal problem: traffic. In Julius Caesar's day it was chariots and wagons jammed axle-to-axle on the cobblestones. Today it is Fiats and Alfa-Romeos bumper-to-bumper in a jam that reaches maximum autosclerosis in Rome's downtown arteries during the holiday shopping season. Caesar solved the problem in his day by imperial edict, banning carts, wagons, coaches and elephants during daylight hours. Last week Rome was trying the same thing on a smaller scale-and ruefully discovering banning Fiats by fiat to be hardly a Caesarian triumph...
...bumper to bumper, and the traffic is stalled. I want to get home, Lord, but the traffic won't move. Really, it's too much. Don't ask me to be patient. Okay. I'll try some more to be human, but it's nearly been knocked out of me for one day. Stay with me; I can't do it alone. Jesus, thanks for sweating it out with me out here on this highway...
...Willig began to show the stuff of which champions are made. Deftly he lighted the blue bumper. Then he left the fans exophthalmic with a long flip to the hundred target. After bouncing the ball between the blue and yellow bumpers. Willig was home free. It was a moment that will he remembered as long as The Game is played...
...m.p.h. in his 1965 Ford; at Charlotte, N.C. A five-car pile-up on the first lap cost the life of Driver Harold Kite, and only 18 of the 44 starters were still around at the end. Lorenzen made his move on the 216th lap (out of 267), dueled bumper to bumper for the next 45 laps with A. J. Foyt, took the lead for keeps when Foyt clipped the wall at 125 m.p.h.-only nine miles from the finish...