Word: boosterism
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...putting a booster in the P-38. The strike leader can always use a little extra power...
...word connoting both otherworldliness and governmental perfidy. "Some people come up to me and say, 'Gosh, I don't like this. I don't want to be known as the kook capital,'" says Bill Pope, interim CEO of the Roswell Chamber of Commerce, speaking with the easygoing charm and booster's earnestness one expects in a Southwestern city father. He is referring to next month's three-day gala marking the golden anniversary of the alleged crash in 1947 of a flying saucer near Roswell. It is a civic distinction that was long ignored by most Roswellians--Moore...
ROOTS U.N. ambassador and former New Mexico Congressman Bill Richardson, a state booster, displays Three Eggs in Pink Dish by Georgia O'Keeffe, a longtime New Mexico resident...
...while the loss to UMass may have seemed like a low point at the time, the laxmen had an even deeper valley in which to fall. A subsequent 13-5 win over Yale was good morale booster--showcasing an impressive career-high three-goal, two-assist effort by senior attackman Max Von Zuben--but the Elis were not a top-ranked team...
HOUSTON: Russia's space program was dealt another blow as a Zenit-2 booster rocket carrying a military satellite exploded and crashed after liftoff from Kazakstan. The explosion was caused by an emergency shutdown of the rocket's first stage engines 48 seconds after launch, Russian Space Agency officials said. No injuries were reported. It was the twenty-eighth launch and seventh failure of a Zenit-2 since 1985. For Russia, the disaster is the latest in a string of setbacks, which have included fires on-board Mir and delays in the construction of critical components for the international space...