Word: pep
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eight days in jail never hurt anybody," said Juan Perón last year in one of his frequent pep talks to Buenos Aires police. Under this stern dictum, made legal by the "state of internal war" decreed after the 1951 army revolt, thousands of Argentines were in & out of jail during the past year. Usually they were arrested, jailed and released without any formal charge. And, almost without exception, the real reason was that they were known or believed to oppose the regime...
...These boys' tails are really up," reported Lieut. General Isaac D. White, X Corps commander, next day. Van Fleet was delighted. At a ceremony in Taegu, he celebrated the anniversary of the ROK army, which began seven years ago as a constabulary of 600 men. Full of pep and eleven divisions strong, it is now holding almost 70% of the U.N. line in Korea, doing most of the fighting and taking the brunt of the casualties...
Meanwhile, the squad showed plenty of pep, as Coach Lloyd Jordan worked hard to prevent any Davidson-like lapses coming against the Bruins. Dick Clasby ran at will, breaking away for long yardage consistently. And reserve tailbacks Hardy Cox and Paul Murphy also worked out, with the former passing particularly well...
...Thucydides had a new job to sweat over. Tribune Publisher Helen Rogers Reid and her son, Editor Whitelaw Reid, 39, moved Herzberg over to run the slipping Sunday edition (circ. 596,775), which up to now has had no boss of its own. They want Herzberg to pep it up to closer competition with the fat, profitable Sunday Times (circ. 1,051,626), which in the past year gained 5,000 circulation while the Sunday Trib was losing 38,000. To prove that they mean business, the Reids are spending $1,000,000 on the new Sunday paper...
...stoneworking shops for children's homes, wrote a book, Adventure in Jade, on his expeditions up & down the U.S. He even took his hobby to work. At sales' meetings Businessman Kraft would hand out jade lucky charms from his workshop, sandwich in a little pep talk. "Rub this between the palms of the hand until warm," he would say, "make a wish, then go out and work like hell...