Word: pep
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Zealots' Creed. After a night's sleep and a breakfast pep talk to western Republicans, the President headed a 30-car caravan that rolled through spectacular canyons to the site of the $287 million McNary Dam, on the Oregon border. On hand to flip a switch activating the dam's fifth generator, the President took occasion to define one of the West's most vital issues: public v. private power. It was a bold, effective, potentially dangerous speech...
...emblazoned with the gold Pulitzer Prize emblem). On rainy days many a carrier in a well-heeled family enlists the aid of his mother, and as a result, Newsday is often delivered in station wagons and Cadillac convertibles. The paper sends some of the boys to summer camp, holds pep rallies where they chant such songs (to the tune of Stouthearted Men) as "Newsday is ever/The one whose endeavor/Will give you the best you can read...
...sales have dropped (from 20% of all auto sales in 1953 to 14% now), is going all out this fall to recover its position. Chrysler and Plymouth are coming out Nov. 17 with 55 completely new models. President L. (for Lester) L. (for Lum) Colbert even gave a surprise pep talk to the United Automobile Workers' 175-man Chrysler Council to enlist the union's help...
...prove their own fortitude (and also that their countrymen eat too much), eleven Swedish vegetarians aged 26 to 44 staged a ten-day fasting hike of 330 miles from Goteborg to Stockholm. Encouraged by pep talks from "Nature Doctor" Arne Wingquist, all but two stood the course, sustained by nothing more potent than plain water. One who fell by the wayside was Wingquist himself, on the ninth day. The marchers' average weight loss en route...
...city of Hankow, Hanyang-and Wuchang, were under heavy pressure. Last month the Communists finally admitted that 600,000 "flood fighters" had been rounded up to work on the Yangtze dikes-more than 100,000 of them inside Hankow, where Red loudspeakers blared stirring martial music and Communist propaganda pep talks...