Word: pep
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...yards south of this bustling new community, the 2,500 hutments and 40-odd compounds of Indian Village lay sprawling across barren ridges and hillsides. In the compounds, some 22,500 desperate anti-Communist Chinese and North Korean P.W.s were killing time, giving one another anti-Communist classes and pep talks, chipping makeshift daggers from broken urinals, shouting "Death to Mao the Dog Communist!" for the benefit of passersby...
...injuries suffered in a fall from her horse; in South Hamilton. Mass. Like her husband, Beatrice Patton was an outspoken believer in the strenuous life. She wrote a historical novel (Blood of the Shark), composed band music for her husband's tank units, helped prepare his pep talks to his troops. After Patton's death in 1945, she campaigned for universal military training ("It makes Americans out of all sorts of odds and ends...
Secret Weapon. In Edgeware. England, just before a game with nearby Rainham, the town's dejected soccer team took time out for a session with Psychotherapist J. (for Joshua) Sparrow, who gave a "psychological pep-talk" to the players "to bring out their latent ability," succeeded so well that Edgeware won its first victory of the season...
...works only three days a week, spends a good deal of time at the tracks racing prize horses from his famed stable, he never lets his business slip for lack of publicity and promotion. He sometimes flies 100 or more salesmen to his Paris headquarters for champagne dinners and pep talks, keeps a sharp ear cocked for feminine comments on the quality of his products. Says he: "A woman knows more about perfume than the best technician...
...group got a spiritual pep talk from the institute's music director, Max Helfman. He told them about young people turning to their religion-"Imagine, 80 young college girls in Bikini bathing suits sitting beside that beautiful swimming pool practicing their parshah [the part of the Bible to be read in the Sabbath service] ... I know some of you are asking, 'But why is a return to true Judaism so important?' I will tell you why. Because 2,000 years ago the Jews brought their message to the world and Christianity was the result...