Word: bumpers
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...since settlers started moving West at the end of the 18th Century. Gentility is not usually an acceptable approach to settling differences in the United States. That may account for the large amount of violent crime here compared with other developed countries. In some states pick-ups still sport bumper stickers supporting capital punishment...
...shooting the movie I got to ride these wooden roller coasters at the park in Pittsburgh which were some of the best I've ever been on. Later, the guys told me that they had taken off the brakes to make it extra scary for us. But I love bumper cars and I have a specific memory of being with a particularly pretty girl on the Ferris wheel...
...imagined neurocircuitry that would bypass the mouth altogether and target different parts of the brain for different smell and taste sensations,” Zhou said. “People would wear a helmet. There could be a pole attached to the ceiling. It would be like bumper cars.”They envisioned a room full of bubbles in which people could simply open their mouths and taste everything from rhubarb pie to artichokes as the bubbles popped. But the bubbles’ lipid membranes were too weak to support imbedded particles. They tried tea. They tried mint. They...
...favorite bumper sticker among fevered Bush haters held that the 43rd President was "all hat, no cattle." Dictionaries of idiom define this as "when someone talks big, but cannot back it up." We've known for a long time the size of Barack Obama's head. Now we're about to find out the size of his herd...
...alternative artspace” in Venice Beach, Calif., where the walls in the lobby were covered exclusively with posters and paintings of Barack Obama. In a place like Venice Beach where hardly a car drives by that doesn’t have a Yes We Can bumper sticker, the Obama motif is nothing new, but these depictions of the President-elect had an unmistakable messianic quality to them...