Word: boosterism
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Other unit commanders who wanted a morale-booster for their own men were given the privilege of staging the executions of flyers captured in their bivouac areas. On at least two occasions the livers of the executed men were served in the officers' messes while strips of flesh cut from the legs were used to flavor enlisted men's soup...
...might be expected to be somewhat anti-Soviet. But last week when he came home to Atlanta from a whirlwind trip through the U.S.S.R. he was brimming with enthusiasm for what he had seen and been told. In 25 short days, the Russians had made Dr. Louie Newton a booster...
...camps of wood and rusty tin. In an effort to hide the naked desolation, the city administration issued free seedlings of wildflowers. The Reconstruction Deliberation Committee, with Rotarian zeal, dreamed of making a tourist center of Hiroshima with parks, broad avenues and a memorial hall to world amity. Chief booster was the city's assistant mayor, who played third base on the newly formed baseball team. (Brightly colored posters tacked to dead trees last week announced a doubleheader with the Osaka-Kobe team...
...booster of private flying, Ackerman plans to display the products of various aircraft manufacturers across the States and perhaps include them in technicolor movies with the many governors who have invited him in for a visit...
Another enthusiastic booster of the seminars is Sam Janis, business agent of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (A.F. of L.) in Bridgeport, Connecticut. In the report he will submit to the faculty, he plans to discuss "Trends in the Location of the Women's Garment Industry...