Word: pep
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...latest rumor buzzing around Washington. The rumor: that the President would go on the air just before the elections to lay down the law on U.S. mobilization. The speech, so the story went, would go far beyond the "work harder" generalities of Harry Truman's recent Korean war pep talks and spell out the specific controls and sacrifices necessary to put the U.S. on an adequate defense footing...
...rounds La Motta worked like a man in a doze: his footwork was sluggish, his left, normally sharp and stabbing, had neither punch nor pep. Twice the referee had to step in to tell Jake to fight. In the 14th round, the Frenchman jarred him with a right cross that almost floored the 29-year-old champion for the first time in his ring career...
Battered, canny little Willie Pep, one of the shiftiest boxers in ring history and featherweight champion (except for three months) through the past eight years, figured that at the advanced fighting age of 28 he had learned all the tricks of his trade. A fast man on his feet and a fairly sharp puncher, he could also wrestle, gouge and butt with the best of them. Last week, nonetheless, Harlem's 24-year-old Sandy Saddler taught Willie a few new holds...
...bell ended the round, Pep sagged into his corner, grimacing with pain in his left shoulder. A boxing-commission doctor made a quick inspection, found the shoulder dislocated. By a technical knockout, Sandy Saddler was featherweight champion of the world...
Said bitter Willie Pep: "He beat me with a double arm-lock." Said Saddler: "I thought a punch to the kidney did it. If they say I twisted his arm, O.K., I twisted...