Word: boosting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Munro feels that the win over defending champion Cornell was a psychological boost, but said, 'Today we'll be going from the frying pan into the fire. We must have a good performance to be in the game," he added...
...culture, is treated in movies like The Trip, with Peter Fonda, or Wild in the Streets, in which everyone over thirty is deported to campus and given LSD. The drug gets a boost from Skiddoo, in which Jackie Gleason goes out into the world to spread love after inadvertantly licking LSD off something handed him by a draft card burner...
...legislation - in this case, to improve educational and anti-poverty programs for Eskimos and Indians. On the second day, however, Kennedy was faced with a mutiny by the three Republican Senators on his committee. They abruptly abandoned the trip, charging that it was "a stage-managed scenario" to boost Kennedy's presidential prospects. Hollywood's Senator George Murphy, who used to get star billing himself, took a look at the mob of cameramen focusing in on the Kennedy face and decided that the occasion "was turning into a kind of Roman circus." Said a Republican Committee aide...
...emphasize that fact, the Commerce Department last week warned that the nation's trade balance is unlikely to improve much over the next five years. Indeed, said Commerce's study, the balance may even slip into a deficit unless the Government takes stronger steps to boost exports...
...field spread out more and more, though there was always somebody around. And the streets were lined with people. Many had programs and as they saw a runner approaching, they checked his number and then urged him on by name. The psychological boost, at least to a novice like me, was immeasurable. A person would yell, "That a boy, Ben, keep going." I think I got special attention because many pitied me. Here comes this whimp of a kid who certainly doesn't look 18. On the other hand, some kids, ver considerately, I thought, called me names...