Word: pep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sage was singing to himself . . . "Willo, Petrillo, Petrillo." Seeing his crew around him, he switched to "Hall, hail, DeGangl's all here," and began his pep talk. "I want you to fight," he said. "I want you to go Straight from here like a shot from a Gannon and get on the Ball...
Britt, Iowa, hung its bunting out again last week; the hoboes were coming to town. They cannonballed from east & west, bedded down in the town park, the jungle under the railroad water tank, in freight cars. Scholarly Roger Payne, 72, and plump Polly Pep were exceptions. Payne slept in the school doorway; Polly, the only woman delegate to the bindle stiffs' first postwar convention, picked a haystack...
...bards carried beyond the cool forest glade. With striking unanimity, the whole Welsh press snubbed the Princess by publishing not a line of her plea. The Welsh were convinced that a Government program to improve working conditions in the pits will get miners back to work faster than a pep talk from a princess...
...Belem, mouth of the Amazon, the trekkers were treated to pep talks on the romance of the jungle, shown how to cut the bark of the hevea (rubber tree), and then pushed into the jungle. Disillusion came fast. The hevea did not grow in stands; sometimes the trees were miles apart. Dwellings were mostly mud huts which the men built themselves in tall forests through which the sunlight never entered. Flesh-eating piranha fish kept them from river baths. Snakes bit them. The atabrine that the U.S. sent down to combat malaria was stolen by middlemen...
...team which will embody a little experimentation. When questioned at practice yesterday, he said that he intended to try Herb Neal at short. Neal has been clouting the ball hard in practice and hit two long blows in the Bowdoin game. He also has shown a lot of pep and fire in his play around the pivot position during practice...