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Word: bumpers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...because Freak Out! is better music. Those who've listened to Safe As Milk know that Captain Beefheart has the best, most ignored record ever made (maybe). Alex St. Claire's guitar on his first two albums is superlative, as is Captain Beefheart's amazing voice and harp. The bumper sticker that comes with Safe As Milk is alone worth the price of that album...

Author: By Cedric Finberg, | Title: Beefheart Mania: Do You Believe? | 3/19/1971 | See Source »

London traffic seems to be where it's at these days. A bang and a tinkle in front of Harrods last week brought Salesman Patrick Ling charging out of his little Zephyr, "my mind full of evil thought," to deal with the blighter who'd bumped his bumper and smashed his tail light. The girl behind the wheel of the spiffy Reliant Scimitar just sat there, but her male companion suggested that Ling send the bill to Buckingham Palace, where the insurance would take care of it. The bird was Princess Anne, her companion a detective guardian. "What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 8, 1971 | 3/8/1971 | See Source »

...hear all the old boos, all the dirty sneers. Paste a sticker proclaiming STAMP OUT AGNEWSPEAK On every bumper. Take the ribbons out of the typewriters of all reporters and rewritemen. Force six packs a day on the guy who wrote "Winston tastes good like . . ." Would that the cure for semantic aphasia were that simple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: THE LIMITATIONS OF LANGUAGE | 3/8/1971 | See Source »

...Penn beat Yale is no deep, dark secret," Harvard coach Bill Brooks said yesterday. Two weeks ago the Quakers topped Yale. 66-49. On the bulletin board behind Brooks was one of the Quakers' red and blue bumper stickers: "Who Are Those Guys? Penn Swimming...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Quakers Trounce Swimmers, 77-36 | 3/1/1971 | See Source »

...carry their rifles hung in the back windows of their pick-up trucks even when it's not hunting season, it's not so much a demonstration of militance as of the kind of spirit that prompted one Alaskan candidate in this fall's elections to pass out bumper stickers with the legend "THE WEST WASN'T WON WITH A REGISTERED...

Author: By William S. Beckett, | Title: Relaxing, Living, Taking Time To Do Things | 12/17/1970 | See Source »

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