Word: crackers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...supermarket age," said the Chief Justice, "we are like a merchant trying to operate a cracker-barrel grocery store with the methods and equipment of 1900." When it comes to funds, he noted, "the entire cost of the federal judicial system is $128 million," compared with $200 million for a single C-5A military airplane. But "more money and more judges alone is not the real solution," he said. "Some of what is wrong is due to the failure to apply the techniques of modern business to the management of the purely mechanical operation of the courts-of modern record...
...Cracker Base. The most significant contest by any measure pitted George Wallace against Albert Brewer in Alabama. That Wallace's bluntly racist comeback campaign succeeded in toppling the comparatively moderate, attractive Governor both showed the density of white resentment in the Deep South and broadcast ripples that will be felt in other states...
...past than future (see following story). Kevin Phillips, a theorist and codifier of the Nixon Administration's largely misnamed Southern strategy, believes that "Wallace has become too gross for the Southern middle class. Where before he was a conservative regional candidate, he had to get down to his cracker base to win in his home state...
...Animal Cracker...
...from a world they do not like and feel helpless to change. "What the young in some cases want," say Sociologists Simon and John H. Gagnon in a jointly written paper, "and what appears to adults as unreasonable, is that the prize be located at the top of the Cracker Jack box, not at the bottom." Another attraction, they add, is that drugs can screen out reality and allow the youthful user to withdraw to the private sanctuary of his self...