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Word: bumper (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...South Carolina's Senator Strom Thurmond has been stumping the South for Nixon but strangely neglecting South Carolina. Wallace, as a result, has edged ahead. Thurmond's own supporters are so concerned that a Wallace victory would damage the Senator's prestige that they have distributed bumper stickers pleading, HELP STROM, ELECT NIXON. But conservative South Carolinians are not inclined to help Strom, and Wallace is now ahead. In Florida, a vague desire to register a protest against both major parties has erased Nixon's earlier lead. His final campaign rally in Miami drew only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Where They Are with Three Weeks to Go | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

Webster's describes "graffiti" as being "a rude inscription or drawing found on walls or stones." However, graffiti for the contest can take any form, be it on a sign, bumper sticker, or toilet paper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Graffiti Writers Find Benefactor | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

...Iowa, where endless acres of plump corn awaited harvest last week, the GOP is looking forward to a bumper crop of its own. The latest polls give Richard Nixon a 2-to-l lead over Hubert Humphrey. The GOP also has hopes of capturing the Governor's mansion, both state houses, and six of Iowa's seven seats in the House of Representatives. To avert a total rout, dejected Democrats are looking to a lone champion, Governor Harold E. Hughes, 46, a craggy-jawed former truck driver who is battling hard to avoid being buried under an anti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: TWO TOUGH FIGHTS FOR THE SENATE | 10/11/1968 | See Source »

That also turned out to be a bad decision. The pickup was not being subtle now, and it repeatedly rammed the rear bumper of my car. I saw in the mirror that Confederate flags flew from each of two radio antennas. In a speedless Volkswagen, I could never run away. So I stopped...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Southern Schizophrenia: | 10/7/1968 | See Source »

...white voters voice their racial views have risen over the last two months." A New York-based writer visits Baltimore and Washington, and finds that "crime-Negro crime-is almost the only topic of conversation." The Aldine Printing Co. in Los Angeles, the world's largest manufacturer of bumper stickers, reports that its bestseller is SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL POLICE, the old Birch slogan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FEAR CAMPAIGN | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

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