Word: pep
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blue-chippers, whom he has wooed with special ardor, Lyndon invited the group, which included former Eisenhower Cabinet Members Robert B. Anderson (Treasury) and Marion B. Folsom (Health, Education and Welfare), into the Cabinet room to pose for pictures, then sent them on their way with a parting pep talk: "In the year of 1964, we are not determining the future of our parties. But we are determining the fate and fortune of America itself-and of the cause we are privileged to lead. I commend all of you not only on the choice you have made for your country...
Fair officials concede that some changes will have to be made before the '65 season gets under way. Among other steps, they have made overtures to Russia to participate. Other pep-up programs are planned by individual exhibitors. While several good shows may simply not be able to return next year, much of the promising Hall of Science and the Belgian Village have yet to open. The prospect is that the fair will continue as something quite a bit better than a financial or esthetic wilderness, but less than Moses' promised land...
...Lancashire family got 800 "Purple Hearts" (pep pills...
...Pep Talk. Last week, under a scorching noon sun, Lyndon nonpolitically cultivated a group of businessmen in the White House Rose Garden. The guests were gathered for a presidential pep talk about the proposed new International Executive Service Corps, a kind of bluechip, button-down Peace Corps. "The program we are launching today," said Lyndon, "is an inspiring example of sane and sensible, responsible and constructive cooperation between Government and private enterprise...
There were others. Liston seemed to be surrounded by curious people-like Nevada Gambler Ash Resnick, described as "athletic director" of a Las Vegas hotel, who was in Sonny's corner on the night he lost the title. And Pep Barone, a Palermo factotum, who was a ubiquitous visitor at Liston's training camp. ("Sonny thinks Pep is good luck," explained Nilon. "He's very superstitious.") The tenderness of the hearings reached a high point with the testimony of paradoxical Edward Lassman, a member of the Miami Beach Boxing Commission, which gave its official blessing...