Word: pep
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campaign-like Ludwig Erhard's-has been distinctly low key so far, He is currently riding around on a campaign train that, by election time, will have traveled 12,500 miles; he will have visited 44 major cities and delivered no fewer than 75 speeches and 250 curbside pep talks. He has stuck largely to such main issues as prices, education, and health-avoiding rough personal attacks on his opponent...
...down." On several occasions, he was washed overboard in heavy seas; each time he hauled himself back aboard by a lifeline that tethered him to the boat or by grabbing the boat's rigging. Worst of all were his hallucinations, the result probably of taking too many benzedrine pep pills. Once he imagined that a "monster" had invaded the boat's cabin and thrown his eleven-year-old son overboard...
...room at the top for spiritual confusion, depression and fear. His message, which owes more to Peale than to Paul, soothingly emphasizes the presence of God's love. "You wrote him off years ago," he often says, "but he didn't write you off." Besides giving spiritual pep talks, Gornitzka frequently helps businessmen solve moral dilemmas. In a stock battle for control of his company, one West Coast executive faced insurgents who were tapping phones and spreading false rumors about the corporation's financial health. Gornitzka advised the executive to fight back ethically rather than adopt...
DRUGS. Expands federal control over the manufacture and distribution of depressants and stimulants, covering both inter-and intrastate trafficking in goofballs and pep pills, and sets up stiff penalties for violations. Signed...
...Europeans can often talk tougher and act more decisively than the Americans abroad. Pleading for a boost in productivity at Ford Motor Co.'s British branch, Manchester-born Managing Director Allen Barke told 60,000 workers: "Britain's image abroad is lousy" - and they applauded his pep talk. Thanks to management training at their U.S. home offices and such business schools as Harvard and Stanford, the European executives can comfortably speak the jargon of U.S. business ("parameters," "public relations," "cost control"), but they switch on their local dialects to good advantage when dealing with customers, competitors or labor...