Word: bumpered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More official hawkers moved among the people. Some were selling copies of The Wallace Story for $5.00, bumper stickers for 25c, buttons for 10c. Finally the organist slid into a rendition of "Dixie", Seymour moved back to the podium yelling, "And now here he is, Ladies and Gentlemen, here he is. The next president of the United States. The next president of the United States. The Honorable George Wallace." The Secret Service men moved forward on the stage, the organist took out all stops, and the audience was back on its feet, cheering, whistling, applauding, and loving America...
Throughout, Earl Warren was both symbol and target. Bumper stickers reading IMPEACH EARL WARREN-or in California, FLUORIDATE EARL WARREN -festooned countless autos, and the Chief Justice was long No. 1 on the far right's hate list. In 1954, Mississippi's Senator James Eastland denounced Warren's court as "the greatest single threat to our Constitution"; last week George Wallace declared that "he's done more to destroy constitutional government in this country than any one man." Even Dwight Eisenhower, who thought of Warren as a mildly progressive Republican when he named him Chief Justice...
...passed into respectable everyday language. Having come to prominence through such recordings as Aretha's and Mitch Ryder's, "Sock it to me" is now used in a neutral sense as a catch-phrase on TV's Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In and is a common sight on bumper stickers and even political placards. Jazz (originally a copulative verb) and rock 'n' roll (from a blues lyric, "My baby rocks me with a steady roll") are other examples...
...back and forth, inspecting medical charts and asking what they meant. Outside on Lucas Street, beneath the fifth-floor window, hundreds of Angelenos gathered for the vigil; crowds were to be with Bobby Kennedy the rest of the week. A local printer rushed out 5,000 orange and black bumper stickers: PRAY FOR BOBBY. His daughter and other girls gave them away to all takers...
Underneath the beauty of the Invaders from Memphis and the rhetoric of fallen leaders there is not much stuff. People are walking around in brand new denim coveralls with cars from California that have SCLC bumper stickers next to Bobby Kennedy bumper stickers. Even if this thing ends in violence (it is already confused and frustrated, and that combination often leads to violence), this is not a revolution, nor what it meant to be. Everything the Poor People want has already been proposed by the Johnson Administration, the Urban Coalition, or the Kerner Commission. The only thing really...