Word: bumpered
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...clear a path for him. With sirens screaming, 30 motorcycle cops led the motorcade on a wild ride into downtown Algiers. Switching lanes with abandon and totally disregarding one-way street signs, the cars alternately sped along at 60 m.p.h. or were caught in bumper-to-bumper jams as the screaming populace boiled forward to see its new leader. Finally the caravan reached the prefecture of the Provisional Government, overlooking Algiers' waterfront; carried inside on the shoulders of his joyous followers, Ben Bella met and shook hands with Algeria's vanquished and all-but-forgotten Premier, Benyoussef Benkheddathus...
This year Australia has a bumper wheat crop estimated at 300 million bu. ready for harvesting, and is eager to sell more to Peking. The Hong Kong business community is full of reports that the Australians will offer more liberal credit terms to the Chinese Reds in the hope of undercutting the Canadians, who last year sold $120 million worth of grain to Peking...
Once the gas and oil are in, most men and all women have no further interest in or knowledge of what makes the car go. When something goes wrong, all they know is that the car is making "a funny noise." At the start of a new bumper-to-bumper touring season, Auto Repairman Frank Burwell of Peoria, Ill., who recently won a nationwide contest for mechanics conducted by Chrysler, has compiled a handy glossary of auto talk for the mechanically unsophisticated...
...drive for re-election was in high gear. "Bush for Senate" stickers studded walls at Republican headquarters. From Hartford's Bond Hotel, his campaign staff passed out buttons and bumper strips, ordered placards for his triumphal renomination at the Connecticut G.O.P...
...Horizontal Lieutenant. A dogface farce that may not fracture any funny bones but manages to pile up a bumper crop of nuts on a Pacific island. It stars Paula Prentiss and Jim Hutton, who are surely the most promising romanticomedians around...