Word: bumpers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...considered a special occasion, pre-concert jitters were the rule. "How many were disappointed when they cast their eyes over the bill of fare and saw a blank where they are wont to see "Music by the Pierian Sodality." Sometimes the Pierians were so busy bracing themselves with a bumper that they almost missed the exercises, or arrived too breathless to play...
...strike showed sinews of strength from the start. The morning before the deadline, grocery stores were crowded by foresighted housewives laying in supplies; knots of grim-faced workers idled on street corners. Half an hour before strike time, steel shutters slammed down on store fronts, and the usual bumper-to-bumper downtown traffic dwindled away to eerie emptiness. Then, from steeple after steeple, bells clanged out the Roman Catholic Church's defiance of the dictator and the signal for the strike to start. Auto horns, usually muted under threat of a $100 fine, hooted in derisive chorus across...
...railroads are the most efficient method for moving commuters. But bigger fare increases alone are no real solution; they cause more commuters to use their own cars. Into Manhattan every day last year, some 18,000 more New Jersey commuters came by car than by rail. To move the bumper-to-bumper traffic, New York and other big cities are spending billions on highways and off-street parking sites-thus encouraging even more car commuters...
...Bumper Crop. In Richmond, Pedestrian Fred Van de Water observed on the windshield of a large four-door sedan a neatly printed, unsigned note that read: "You may not realize that a small English sports car is parked behind you. Please be careful not to run it down...
...should] be removed from consideration when establishing prices in the marketplace." Its economic meaning: the farmer should get top subsidies even while commanding top market prices. Its political meaning: whatever the cost to the taxpayer, Midwestern Democrats plan to leave no political row unplowed in their work toward a bumper vote crop...