Word: bumper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...candidate descending on Springfield last May for the state Democratic convention. For her underdog bid to wrest the body's nonbinding endorsement for Secretary of State from incumbent Michael J. Connally, she enlisted a cadre of children to pass out yellow roses and an unusually heavy load of signs, bumper stickers and buttons. They even placed a large scoreboard in the galleries to keep delegates posted on the progress of the Celtics playoff game. Though Sansone's was an uphill fight, the small, red-haired Boston city councilor realized that even a spunky effort in defeat could help her campaign...
...indispensable, it is also inadequate. Its fatal flaw is fear of the bored viewer switching channels. Those who get their news mostly from TV, as most Americans do, end up spottily informed. Richard Nixon, who can be right some of the time, says that "television is to news what bumper stickers are to philosophy...
Even if he had done so, the immediate effect on grain prices would have been negligible unless the Soviets had signed on for astronomical amounts of grain. The farmers' central problem is that bumper crops and record surpluses have put grain prices at dismal lows. In Kansas, where farmers have just harvested a record wheat crop of 440 million bu., grain is selling at a meager $3.65 per bu., down from $4.05 a year ago and from over $5 in 1973. In Oklahoma, where wheat is selling at $3.20 per bu., farmers invest nearly $6 to harvest each bushel...
...harvest in value. In Oklahoma, the $350 million harvest ranked just behind wheat. In Kentucky and Tennessee, each with a $200 million yield, dope growing has replaced moonshine as the favorite illicit enterprise. Harvesting of this year's crop begins in August and September, and experts predict a bumper yield. Says Bill Keester of the Oklahoma state police: "We've had a lot of rain, and we're blessed with good crops of everything. Unfortunately that means a lot of marijuana as well as wheat...
...already proud town has tapped whole new reserves of native boosterism. Green bows are stuck up everywhere, as are green WE CAN DO IT bumper stickers. The supply of WE CAN DO IT lapel pins sold out some time after the June "Save Our Valley Rally." One local businessman thinks that other merchants will follow his lead and cut prices by 20% as their share of the community sacrifice...