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Word: bumpers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rehabilitation of Richard Nixon, though still in its infancy, is a frightening enough prospect to merit some serious attention even now. Gone are the "Honk If You Think He's Guilty" bumper stickers, given way to advertisements for RN, Nixon's slickly self-serving autobiography; vanished are the chanting, cheering crowds that streamed through the streets of Washington to celebrate on a hot summer night four years ago, replaced by the thousand or so who cheered the man like a hero out of exile when he visited Hardin. Ky. last week. The cheers are not loud, but they are insistent...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Just When You Thought It Was Safe... | 7/14/1978 | See Source »

...three marijuana plants for personal use, and some observers think the bills might be approved next year. If so, backyard gardeners might replace big-time growers in the booming pot trade. Until then, pot farmers in the Northwest stand to reap a bundle this fall from bumper crops?if they don't get bumped off first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where the Grass is Greener | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

...called "Crazy Califano," "Mad, Mad Joe," "the Dynamo".and "the Boy Earthquake." He has also been described as "a loose cannon," and, contrarily, "a torpedo?point him in one direction and he goes." When the tobacco lobby, outraged by Califano's drive to keep young people from smoking, printed bumper stickers proclaiming, CALIFANO IS DANGEROUS TO MY HEALTH, some of the Secretary's subordinates proudly pasted them on their office walls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: I Love This Job! | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

...service of his nation--and many times he killed for it. In Vietnam, the bodies of the Vietnamese were piled "yea high." He holds his hand above his head in illustration. But devotion to country only goes so far. Outside Lowell House, Richardson's 1971 Chevy Impala has a bumper sticker on it summing up his attitudes about where the country is heading. "CRIME WOULDN'T PAY," the bumper sticker reads, "IF THE GOVERNMENT...

Author: By Jonathan H. Alter, | Title: As Different as Night And Day | 6/8/1978 | See Source »

Even for placard-prone California, the spontaneous sprouting of signs for and against 13 has been sensational. Thousands of homeowners display the size of their tax increases in their front yards. Bumper stickers have blossomed on battered Bugs and sleek Mercedes alike. Assessors' offices have been besieged by taxpayers anxious-and afraid-to learn how hard they will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Revolt Over Taxes | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

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