Word: honk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ticket to ride, or honk if you love astronauts. At an Ohio delegation party, perennial Vice-Presidential Also-Ran John Glenn presented Lloyd Bentsen with a red-white-and-blue bumper sticker reading DUKAKIS GLENN. An overoptimistic Glenn supporter had ordered up 10,000, and the Ohio Senator was intent on unloading them. "Since I park next to you in the Senate garage," he informed Bentsen, "I'll expect to see it every...
...soon as the buzzer in the NCAA Championship Game went off, the horns in Philadelphia went on. Honk. Honk. The streets of Philadelphia were filled with the sounds of car horns and the shouts of people yelling from their doorsteps. It was New Year's Eve and the clock had struck midnight...
...stinky fumes and carcinogens. A bike is easy to park in a sliver of space, and of precious oil it needs only a smidgen to keep the wheels squeakless. Riders may turn rowdy, but the vehicle itself is quiet -- a blessed virtue amid the squawk-bleat- scream-grind-growl-honk-toot-wail-shr iek that is the voice of the big city...
...into an unenforced speed limit of about 65 miles per hour. Of course, there will always be the 75 year-old women who--barely able to see over the steering wheel--will drive 50 mph in the left lane and, oblivious to the glare of your brights and the honk of your horn, refuse to let you pass. And there will always be the guys in souped-up Chevy the right lane going 80 and to whom you yell "jeez, what an asshole"--who will break the speed limit no matter what...
...last December, Kroh Development was $850 million in debt, work in four states was stalled, and the firm was facing dozens of lawsuits from lenders, partners, subcontractors and tenants. Bumper stickers appeared in Kansas City reading HONK IF YOU'VE BEEN KROHED. After the firm's lenders refused to extend more credit, the brothers agreed to let Jones head the company...