Word: boosterism
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...Bedford Incident. Assigned to track Soviet submarine movements in the North Atlantic, the destroyer U.S.S. Bedford is laden with detecting devices, rocket-booster torpedoes and predatory instincts. "A floating IBM machine," says Medico Martin Balsam, who wishes he were back in the Reserves. Bedford's crewmen look more like science majors than sea dogs. They don't play poker, they don't go on sick call. Furthermore, Balsam grumbles: "Can you picture any of these guys singing Anchors Aweighl...
...AMERICANS: THE NATIONAL EXPERIENCE, by Daniel J. Boorstin. Historian Boorstin bases his cultural history of the U.S. on what is home-grown American rather than what was modified from European life. The "booster" who followed the pioneer westward and developed the country is his hero; his villain the Southern planter, who borrowed all of English agrarian life and needed slaves to make it work...
...AMERICANS: THE NATIONAL EXPERIENCE, by Daniel J. Boorstin. Historian Boorstin bases his cultural history of the U.S. on what is home-grown American rather than what was modified from European life. The "booster" who followed the pioneer westward and developed the country is his hero; his villain the Southern planter, who borrowed all of English agrarian life and needed slaves to make it work...
...these rollicking journeys lay a new, American style of community, guided by a new, American breed of businessman, the booster, who promoted construction of railroads, saw to the piping of water, digging of sewers, building of schools, laying out of sidewalks, streets and parks. Boosters also founded the pioneer newspapers, in many cases little more than advertising broadsides and forums for the communal chauvinists...
Lift-off from Cape Kennedy, when it finally came, was timed to the second. The countdown clock had not been stopped once−a truly remarkable demonstration of cooperation between men and intricate machines. Rising above its roaring tail in textbook exactitude, the booster flung its capsule aloft with a heart-stopping burst of power. Ahead were eight orbital days−eight days that would, if all went well, teach man more than he had ever known before about the problems and possibilities of flight in space...