Word: boosterism
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...Atlanta clothing store went broke during the Depression, and Adams was reared on small farms in Iowa and Oregon. A well-remembered hate: chopping wood for the family stove. A brilliant student (top in his class at the University of Washington and a law degree from Harvard), an early booster of John Kennedy, a rousing success in both Washingtons, he continues to keep a sharp eye on the road ahead. His presumed next stop: the U.S. Senate...
Disease control center officials released the 50 per cent figure this summer, and government officials acknowledged in August that young adults might need a booster shot for full protection...
Dutra said the center may have downplayed the second shot because agency officials hoped the advisory committee would not insist on the booster...
...every ilk and bilk rush to make the démodée dowager a belle again ?and so prepare to wring the belle of millions of restless Eastern betting chips expected to wind up cozily close to home. "Most people can't afford to go to Vegas," notes one booster, already trying to one-up Nevada. "Anyway, who needs sunshine in a casino...
...over the paper with a portable sun lamp, making giant prints. Only one of the works survives: the blue roentgen ghost of a nude, eerily transparent. Later, Rauschenberg put a similar motif?a sectional X ray of his own body?in the largest and most spectacular of his lithographs, Booster...