Word: bumpers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nine years of floating between teams and leagues-he spent last year with the rival World Hockey Association-Parent, 29, has become the best goalie in the game. A protege of Jacques Plante, the former Montreal Canadien, Parent does more for the Flyers than fulfill the promise of the bumper sticker on his new Imperial: ONLY THE LORD SAVES MORE THAN BERNIE PARENT...
...every one of Miami's infrequent touchdowns and before Csonka had his NASA-engineered suspension helmet--in his first year in the league it was an existential crisis when the big guy plunged into the line because he was always getting knocked unconscious. A runaway truck with an eggshell bumper. Five times he woke up on the sidelines while an awful lot of people held their breath...
Admittedly the super-sleek '74 edition of the Crimson thinclads has to be given the edge against an Army team that dropped a 90-78 decision to Manhattan last week. But Army has its share of 9.7 dash men and a bumper crop of under 15 second hurdlers, who could each be good for 15 points...
...than permanent. Much of the global surge in food prices over the past two years has been the result of plain bad luck. A series of disastrous crop failures in 1972, caused by phenomenally foul weather round the world, aggravated shortages of wheat, corn, soybeans and other animal feeds. Bumper crops now in prospect in the U.S., the Soviet Union and Australia should at least slow the blistering rise in food prices after midyear...
...most effective coyote poisons - Compound 1080 (monofluoride acetate) and the M44 (a spring-loaded tube containing sodium cyanide)-sheepmen have been howling loudly. They claim that a burgeoning coyote population is threatening their already risky business (which operates on a 2% profit margin) with ruin. They have begun attaching bumper stickers to their automobiles with legends like: EAT AMERICAN LAMB. 10 MILLION COYOTES CAN'T BE WRONG...