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Word: fender (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Their response uses a tactic that lawyers call "arguing in the alternative." It's as if an attorney defended a client accused of stealing a car and denting the fender by saying, "He didn't steal the car, and if he did, the fender isn't dented, and if it is dented, it was dented before my client stole...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Admissions for Fun and Profit: Why Byerly Hall Won't Tell All | 11/27/1990 | See Source »

...attempt to find and question the people who were escorting the commissar at the time of the accident. They had all been shot. I suggested looking for the driver. Fortunately, he was alive. He told us there hadn't been a serious accident at all, just a dented fender. But he did recall hearing a thump in the back of the covered truck. That was the end of the commissar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Khrushchev's Secret Tapes | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

...purring. Five Lincolns, two Chryslers, an estimated $200,000 on the rubber, not including drivers -- all courtesy of the beleaguered budget. Massachusetts' Silvio Conte settled behind the wheel of his own flame red Pontiac GTO convertible, top down, and roared back up Pennsylvania Avenue. The logo on the back fender read THE JUDGE. Message there. These arguments over the people's money are destined to be long and bitter, but there is every evidence that no matter which side wins this case, the taxpayers will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: What, This Crowd Worry? | 5/28/1990 | See Source »

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