Word: boosterism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prensa Libre, "he was being generous." Columnist José Pardo Llada, who once hailed Pearson as an "ideal commentator," wrote in Diario National: "Our illustrious friend Drew Pearson has defrauded us." So fulsome was Pearson's praise for the Batista regime that even a Batista booster, Diario National's Luis Manuel Martinez, objected. He called Pearson a "gringo with a superiority complex, a frivolous tourist...
...alone, two palatial hotels opened their doors to the tourists who swarmed into Las Vegas to gamble. Along the three miles of heatseared desert called The Strip, where frontage ran as high as $1,500 a foot, five hotels in all were built this year. Cried a Las Vegas booster: "No reason why there shouldn't be 60 big hotels in the next five years...
...opening day last week, as Miss Gatlinburg of 1955 posed prettily on the first tee, a blindfolded caddy, toting a borrowed Geiger counter, demonstrated that a radioactive golf ball could be found no matter how deep the grass or how dense the bushes off the fairway. For all Booster Leiper's pride, however, the atomic golf ball was still only an experiment. Even if the Atomic Energy Commission approved their manufacture, radioactive golf balls would cost $20 to $35 apiece, too expensive for any but the best-heeled Wastelanders...
Used in the Army's World War II snooperscopes, the image-converter is essentially a booster for light. In a vacuum tube, photons of light strike a cesium-antimony photocathode, which in turn gives off high-speed electrons. The electrons are accelerated through an electric field, hit a sensitive "retina" screen or a photographic plate, and etch out a crisp picture. Used in celestial photography, the image-converter proved impractical. Reason: water molecules in the photographic emulsion reacted with the cesium, destroyed the unshielded photocathode...
...Yerkes Observatory, he installed an aluminum shield, only four-millionths of an inch thick, between the photocathode and the photographic plate. The fast electrons passed right through the shield like light through a window; the foil prevented the water molecules from destroying the vulnerable cesium, hence the light booster could operate indefinitely...