Word: fender
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...doodled. The lower eyelid of a headlamp. A fender. A door window. A trunk. And wheels. Sometimes a teardrop, a spacecraft. Cars. Even hiding out behind the back desk of the third row wasn't enough to keep the Flint, Michigan, fourth-grader out of trouble, until an art teacher stopped by and became Tom Gale's first serious customer...
...benefits that might flow from such an insight can only be guessed at. Perhaps most intriguing is the fact that rhino horn is self-healing: capable of repairing the tiny cracks that come from jousting matches with other rhinos. "Now imagine a car that could self-heal after a fender bender," grins Van Orden mischievously. "There would definitely be a market for something like that...
...also ending the turf wars between separate divisions, especially design and engineering. Iacocca himself agreed to surrender some of the chairman's prerogatives, including military-style reviews on the design floor in which he had been able to issue imperial orders for a new grill design or a new fender curve...
Howie said she was approached by the suspectwho yelled and "hit the car with a flag attachedto a stick." According to Howie, the suspect brokethe mirror and dented the body and fender of hercar...
...scene, by contrast, from real life: One recent evening on West 68th Street in Manhattan, the alarm on a little red sports car goes off. Who knows what started it? The passing thunderstorm, a bump from a car pulling into the % parking space ahead, someone leaning against the fender? The plates on the wailing car indicate that it comes from Long Island. After 15 or 20 minutes someone puts a note on the windshield: GO BACK TO LONG ISLAND WHERE YOU BELONG AND LEAVE YOUR ALARM THERE. Two hours pass; alarm still wailing. Someone else scrawls some impolite advice...