Word: pep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the Dartmouth game Chief gave his usual pep talk: "This is the toughest game we'll face all year," but ended it with an especially fervent, "I've never been on a team that's beaten Dartmouth and I've never coached one that has. Let's win today...
...relations. At 50, his long string of failures after a smashing initial success (as the "boy manager" of the 1924 Washington Senators) had given Bucky a special understanding of athletes and their failings. He never bawled a player out. His theory: a pat on the back is worth two pep talks. He took a talented but out-of-sorts team, listened to all the complaints, took the players' side in any beef with the front office. Once, when a Yankee pitcher was called on the mat for openly betting on the horses, Bucky piped up with, "So what...
...want 200 pound-linemen. Fleet broken field runners used not apply. We want men with plenty of pep and strong vocal coras," Gerald Spear .'48, head cheerleader, declared yesterday as he issued an appeal for candidates...
...about Christianity which in Britain has floated, besides Lewis, a whole school of literary evangelists (T. S. Eliot, Graham Greene, Dorothy Sayers, et al.). Detective Story Writer Sayers has explained this new interest in Christianity as "spontaneous . . . and not a sort of 'Let's-get-together-and-pep-up-Christianity' stunt by excited missioners, than which nothing could be more detestable. . . . People have discovered by bitter experience that when man starts out on his own to build a society by his own power and knowledge, he succeeds in building something uncommonly like Hell; and they have seriously...
...making a fuss," said Pep (the kappa judge), who sat frowning in front of a wild peach in a pot, "we've got the workers' Butchery...