Word: boosting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...committee's recommendations, particularly those concerning the Cambridge housing situation, are not entirely new. They have been discussed in the Administration previously; some had become informal policy, while others had vanished in the bureaucratic maze. The committee's stamp of approval may now have given some an extra boost...
Arresting Posters. The rebel cause got an unexpected boost when Kampf and two others were arrested for resisting removal of "radical" posters from the lobby entrance of Manhattan's Americana Hotel, where the three-day meeting was held during the holidays. By forcing the arrests, the hotel management fueled the suspicion of some dissidents that M.L.A. directors were colluding to repress them. After that, the business meeting offered them the opportunity to take over. Of 12,000 who registered for the meeting, only 800 appeared for the voting, and the dissidents had a majority on most issues...
...quash any ideas Loyola might have had of duplicating T.C.U.'s incredible comeback. Dover and Gustavson went on a tear at the beginning of the second half to boost the lead to 63-41. For the rest of the night, it was a 20-point ball game until Harrison cleared the bench with about three minutes remaining...
...some surpluses, is likely to be adopted in one form or another fairly soon. The deeper structural reforms will have tougher going, especially in West Germany, where farmers tend to be more backward and conservative than anywhere else in the Common Market. Meanwhile, the plan received a major boost last week, when eleven of 13 Common Market commissioners voted to approve it. Though potent farm groups and individual governments have yet to be persuaded, many European officials were agreeing, at least in private, with what Mansholt was saying aloud...
WEDNESDAY: Shortly after midnight on Christmas Day, the astronauts planned to burn Apollo's engine again, in order to boost their speed to 6,060 m.p.h., and head back toward earth. This maneuver would also occur behind the moon, so that long minutes would pass before earth stations knew whether it had been successful. The Apollo crew's itinerary called for spending the remainder of the day and all day Thursday in housekeeping chores and navigation tests while coasting back toward earth. There were also to be two more live telecasts to earth from the spacecraft...