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Word: bumpers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...liberating all homosexuals from shame and guilt. He is especially eager to smoke out gays and lesbians whose livelihoods, unlike his own, rely on discretion. He sees them as hypocrites and lackeys of their oppressors, a point made so often that the book begins to resemble a stack of bumper stickers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cleaning Out The Closets | 5/24/1993 | See Source »

...mercy is a masterly exercise in fawning self-promotion. It includes details of the good works she would do during her parole, newspaper editorials calling for her release, doctors' reports on her allegedly failing health and even letters from well-wishers, including one man who offers to distribute buttons, bumper stickers and lawn signs emblazoned with the words FREE LEONA. It was presented in court by Helmsley's lawyer with the aid of a kind of professional called a sentencing consultant, one of a growing breed of specialists who counsel convicted offenders on how to avoid or cut down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Get Out of Jail, Not Quite Free | 5/24/1993 | See Source »

...advantages. Their schools don't compare with those in the suburbs, yet the suburbs and the media only seem to talk about injustice in Black neighborhoods. The whites of South Boston know the kind of liberalism practiced here and they don't think much of it. One popular bumper sticker reads "Liberals Suck." And many of them despise places like Harvard, which perpetuate this false liberalism to future generations of leaders...

Author: By Michael K. Mayo, | Title: Overlooking Class | 5/12/1993 | See Source »

...yeah--several of the contestants also mooned the fawning crowd as they strutted their stuff. And, ever watchful of setting a good example for the toddlers, one of the contestants sported a "Don't Do Drugs" bumper sticker on his derrier...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fine House | 3/13/1993 | See Source »

...spring of that year, the record shows, Kill Sin served on a jury with his Puritan neighbors, including Fly Debate Roberts, More Fruit Fowler, God Reward Smart, Be Faithful Joiner and Fight the Good Fight of Faith White. Poor men. At birth, their parents had turned them into religious bumper stickers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Strange Burden of a Name | 3/8/1993 | See Source »

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