Word: pep
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the help of his longtime friend, Washington Lawyer Ed Wheeler, Graham hit on the virtually unknown junior Senator from Tennessee. But Estes Kefauver was reluctant. Graham gave him a long pep talk, finally exploded: "Damn it, Estes, don't you want to be Vice President?" That was the speech that launched Kefauver into his celebrated investigation and the deeper waters of U.S. politics. Since then, Graham, who shudders at the thought of Kefauver for President, has begun feeling like Frankenstein...
...years "Iggy" Smith has been a dominant figure at C.U. He has made philosophy so popular that 2,000 out of 3,500 students each year take at least one course in it. When not talking Aristotle or Aquinas, Iggy is apt to be roaring at a pep rally, cheering on a team or knocking out a bit of ragtime on the piano. "He has been seen," says Athletic Director "Eddie" LaFond, "demonstrating left hooks, racing star sprinters across the campus, doing road work ten miles away, throwing blocks on 225-lb. tackles, pitching for the baseball team and carrying...
...Eliot man, then, chooses relative individualism, he still feels an intense pride in his Hose, a pride that manifests itself not in pep rallies for the Elephants' football team, but in a quiet confidence in the House's excellence an leadership...
...Hall is a study in perpetual motion. In three years he has traveled an estimated half a million miles around the U.S., consulting the party brass, greeting the voters (he has an elephantine memory for names, faces and telephone numbers), giving pep talks to sagging local organizations, and keeping the Republican machine in good working order. In Washington he has exercised his talent for lowering ceilings by consolidating the national committee's office space, whittling down the permanent staff, thus saving $300,000 a year in rents and payroll costs. He meets nearly every day with the President...
...some evidence existed. In Uruguay a fortnight ago, his private secretary, Luis Radeglia, who had flown in from Panama, was detained and found to have tape recordings of Peron speeches, presumably for broadcasts to the homeland. In Buenos Aires Peronistas were peddling phonograph records labeled as tangos but really pep talks by Peron...