Word: pep
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...workers to catapult Perón to power in 1945, arrested (and still jailed after seven years); Miguel Miranda, Perón's onetime economic czar, ousted: Juan Bramuglia, Foreign Minister who incurred the wrath of Eva Perón, and Oscar Ivanissevich. Education Minister who wrote the pep song Peronista Boys, both forced to resign: Domingo Mercante, governor of Buenos Aires Province, humiliated and ousted; Juan Duarte, Perón's own brother-in-law and private secretary, repudiated and fired (he committed suicide...
...Thach Longstreth demonstrates his own sales techniques in pep talks to dealers and salesmen. Says he: "I start out slowly. It's a 25-minute presentation, and by the time I'm through, I'm wringing wet. It reaches a high point where I throw money at them and end by hurling my shoes-an old pair with worn-out soles...
...Into his place Brownie put Luke Carroll, 39, veteran (13 years) Trib staffer and its onetime Chicago correspondent, who will also continue as news editor. Brownie had an even bigger announcement. He was pulling Trib Managing Editor Everett Walker, 48, off the daily paper entirely, moving him over to pep up the Sunday Trib, which has long been one of the Reids' biggest problems. Sunday Editor Joe Herzberg, who had got the same assignment three years ago (but little power to carry it out), will become associate Sunday editor...
...lacrosse coach WILLIAM HARKNESS gives his team a pep-talk at half-time...
...searchlight knifes the sky and startles the crowd. "Lenin came, or rather ran, into the waiting room. He wore a round cap, his face looked frozen, and there was a magnificent bouquet in his hands." Lenin toys with his flowers, stares at the ceiling, and gives a short pep talk, ending with "Long live the worldwide Socialist revolution...