Word: boosterism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...publicly championing another military man: Major General Yitzhak Rabin, 45, the present Israeli chief of staff. Eshkol has declared that Rabin, not Dayan, deserves the major credit for Israel's stunning victory. And indeed he does. Dayan's appointment to the Cabinet was unquestionably a morale booster, but Rabin was the commander in the field. He was the man responsible for the superb condition of the army...
...Hardin, this meet was a big morale booster. Last Saturday, he ran in sweat pants and had to labor for a fourth, but yesterday he looked loose throughout the race and very happy afterwards as he exchanged banter with Shaw...
...seat extravaganzas and leading men of maximum candlepower. Not Sandy. Her concern is not the price but the property, not her image but her interest in the work. She settled on The Fox, based on a D. H. Lawrence novella, in which she plays a lesbian, hardly a career-booster...
...greatest Soviet surprise was the launch vehicle that in 1961 sent Pioneer Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin into orbit in Vostok I. Although envious Western space experts have long assumed that a single giant booster had been used to launch Vostok and later Soviet spacecraft, the vehicle displayed at Paris consisted of a relatively small two-stage rocket surrounded by a cluster of four conical, strap-on rocket engines. Instead of achieving the major breakthrough in rocket technology believed by the West to have made the Gagarin flight possible, the Russians had simply strapped together enough smaller rocket engines to provide...
...during the same period in which it instituted the retirement benefits for instructors, also offered Staff Tuition scholarship aid exclusively to teaching fellows (though many other graduate students receive scholarship aid of other kinds which pays tuition). We should emphasize, however, that this scholarship aid, though a great booster to many teaching fellows who would otherwise sink deeply into debt in order to pay their term bills is not automatic was given in the past year to only 575 of 926 teaching fellows, does not bear any meaningful relation to the amount of the appointments and thus cannot actually...