Word: pep
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Soft-spoken and introverted, Lopez rarely bawls out his players for mistakes. "What's the use?" he says. "They're adults." And he almost never holds clubhouse meetings to discuss strategy or give pep talks. "I attended hundreds of those meetings as a player," he says, "and most of them were a waste of time...
...more out of one overworked man than out of two underworked men," he said. He kept his people on the job seven days a week, and when their enthusiasm flagged, he gave them what he called the "Raborn rededication treatment." This was a cross between a half-time pep talk and a Fourth of July speech. Said one dazed aide after getting the treatment: "I knew that I was ready to die for someone, but I didn't know whether it was the admiral, the President, my mother, the head of the Boy Scouts...
...outsells Bromo-Seltzer 4 to 1). After packaging powdered coffee and lemon mix for K-rations during World War II, Miles Laboratories became in the postwar years the world's largest seller of multivitamin tablets. Nonetheless, though prospering, the company itself showed a decided lack of pep by the mid-1950s...
Characterizing marijuana as "harm- ful," he said that its use should be strongly discouraged. In addition, Farnsworth cited gradually accumulating evidence that "the dangers of amphetamines (pep pills) are even greater than previously believed...
...left the field shouting and yelling; after dinner the pep rally left everyone a bit uncertain. It seemed almost unplanned. Yovicsin told the student body the game depended on them, since the team was ready. O'Brien introduced the team, one by one. Then we drove off to the Framingham Motor Inn to spend the night (late parietals and noisy parties the night before the Yale game make both the team and the coaches anxious for our sleep. So the team moves to a $20-a-night motel...