Word: pep
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SADDLER BEATS PEP...
With Willie Pep hunddling in his corner protesting to referce Ray Miller he could not go on. Sandy Saddler successfully defended his world featherweight title last night with a nine round technical knockout, in a bout marred by rough house wrestling tactics Warned repeatedly by Miller for his leg holds and body twists in this grudge battle at the Polo Grounds. Pep gave up the struggle...
Wilson's blood & thunder speech may have been intended only as a pep talk to get badly needed scrap rolling into steel mills. But it shocked steelmen who wondered where Wilson got the figures. If DPA had privately made such a gloomy report on a drop in steel production, why had NPA estimated that steelmen will produce 400,000 tons more steel in the first quarter of 1952 than in this year's last quarter? Furthermore, how did Wilson expect to get more steel next year when he had permitted DPA to slash the steel industry...
Under austerity and Socialism, Britons have been getting their pep and stamina less & less from good old-fashioned beefsteak, more & more from vitamin pills. Last week it seemed as if even their vitamins were letting them down...
...President had tried every which way to prod Congress. At least four times within the past month, he secretly invited small groups of congressional leaders to drop by Blair House in the evening for pep talks. The meetings all followed the same pattern. Guests arrived about 8 o'clock, were greeted cordially by the President, got a highball, and were drawn into a few hours' discussion led by the President. Among the guests were such Administration stalwarts as Connecticut's McMahon and Minnesota's Humphrey, but there were also a few unpredictable Democrats ranging from Florida...