Word: pep
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...paperwork. "We now have a tendency to make a trip for a two-day meeting that we would have put off before," says Lear Siegler Vice President John J. Burke. At Bell & Howell, six ranking officers will use the ordinarily dead week after Christmas for a jet swing to pep meetings in Cleveland, New York and Los Angeles, returning to Chicago in time for New Year's with their families. Many travelers never glimpse the city in which they have been set down, holding their meetings either in airport conference rooms or in the motels that ring every large...
Amidit the screams of 4500 UConn fans and the blaring of a 20-plece Dixieland pep band, Connecticut overcame a 38-35 halftime deficit and repeatedly threatened to pall away from the Crimson...
...move to South Bend last January was more like a homecoming than an arrival. He was introduced between halves of a basketball game, and the students gave him a ten-minute standing ovation. In mid-February, 3,000 turned out in two feet of snow for a mammoth pep rally. If it was spirit they wanted, spirit he gave them. At spring training he whipped out a letter written by a former Notre Dame player who had been seriously injured in an auto accident. Rockne couldn't have done it better. Voice quavering, Parseghian read the letter to the spellbound...
...liberal tenets--from foreign aid to equal rights--by illustrating the salutary effect they would have on the nation's capital growth. Certainly there is moralism in his politics, but there is also a large dose of boosterism. Where Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt deprecated the poor for their lack of "pep," Humphrey says he wants to inject the talents of the poor into the economy as a shot of "pep--non-Babbitt style...
...Cape Kennedy for an unscheduled inspection tour. There he donned a surgical-looking white nylon cap and gown, went through a pre-satellite-shoot "clean room," peered through a periscope at a Saturn rocket being groomed for flight, gave missile workers a few little keeper-of-the-peace pep talks...