Word: bumpered
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...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...
...lives, about the matters that most directly affect them. They are often community activists who mean to have a significant say-so in their own affairs In its own instructive stress on individualism, the Republican Party would seem to have among such younger voters a rich field for future bumper crops...