Word: pep
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pep talk to greeting-card artists in Kansas City, Mo., Magazine Illustrator Norman Rockwell bared his soul: "I'm not the inspired type of artist who can't sleep and eat for thoughts of his work. I've never missed a meal yet. I sleep and eat and still get inspired...
...Battery. Willard Storage Battery Co. announced that it will soon put on sale a new auto battery with a special plastic gadget to adjust the water according to the seasons. More water in summer cuts acid deterioration, the company said, and less water in winter gives the battery more pep...
...clear attributes: he knew production and he was anything but a "yes man." After the election, Eisenhower's chief talent scout, General Lucius Clay, agreed with Ike that Wilson was the man to make sense out of the Pentagon. Wilson at first was reluctant, but after an Eisenhower pep talk, agreed to become Secretary of Defense...
...Pep-talking was not enough. Navy's deft team play, with crisscross aerial passes, won two quick goals early in the second half before Army could get moving. Final score: 10-7. Navy's jubilant players, rushing to the Severn River seawall, gave happy Coach William H. ("Dinty") Moore a hearty heave ho into the river-then exuberantly jumped in after him. Princeton's Coach Thomsen hurried to a telephone to tell his men that they were the national champions...
...speeches at $100-a-plate political dinners go, the President's speech was notably unpolitical. Speaking from sparse notes printed on cards, he delivered not a tub-thumping pep talk but an earnest "account of what has been going on in Washington." The Administration's "great objective," he said, is to create "a government whose honor at home commands respect abroad." Other notes...