Word: bumpered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...margin of six votes, the union won the right to represent Darlington's 550 workers. Milliken immediately closed the plant, a move that depressed the town (pop. 7,000) and crippled the union's entire Southern campaign. Textile manufacturers festooned the region with bumper stickers that warned: "Remember Darlington...
Last year, however, something seemed to go awry. Although about 180 seniors secured a place in medical school, some 25 from the bumper premed crop were rejected...
...that a new record in 1964 seems reasonably certain, the big guessing game is about how well the industry will do in 1965. Last week the top men in Detroit took a look ahead, agreed that the industry will have another bumper-to-bumper crop, but disagreed-to the tune of about 700,000 cars-about just how good the year will be. Cautious but optimistic, General Motors Chairman Frederic Donner predicted that 1965 sales "could well exceed the long-term trend estimate of 7,800,000 cars and approximate the levels reached in 1964." Chrysler President Lynn Townsend said...
...rival: spending money. Armed with a $1,250,000 advance against its new five-year TV contract with NBC −and with orders to "get competitive" at any cost -the fledgling league plunged gleefully into a dollar-for-dollar battle with the N.F.L. to sign this year's bumper crop of graduating college stars...
...second noise that I heard had removed a portion of the President's head, and he slumped noticeably to his left. Mrs. Kennedy had jumped up from the seat and was, it appeared to me, reaching for something coming off the right rear bumper of the car, the right rear tail, when she noticed that I was trying to climb...