Word: pep
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pep Pill. Nasser's council, founded four years ago, is the pep pill responsible for much of the awakening. Its high-powered radio station, the Voice of Islam, broadcasts the message of the Koran twelve hours a day in eight languages. The council has its own coed training camps. It also provides 1,300 scholarships annually at Egyptian universities to young Moslem men and women from around the world. It sends gold-plated Korans to Afro-Asian VIPs-Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta got one recently with a friendly inscription by Nasser. It has supplied 3,000-volume libraries...
...Shipbuilding to take command of Sasebo Heavy Industries Co., a smaller shipyard that seemed to be limping toward bankruptcy. But to Mori, who at 63 still retains the spirit he developed as a college oarsman, Sasebo represented an irresistible "sporting challenge." Firing up Sasebo's workers with daily pep talks, he diversified the company into diesel engines, bridges and steel tanks. He capitalized aggressively on the demand for supertankers created by the 1956 Suez crisis. Last July, Sasebo launched the world's biggest tanker, the 131,000-ton Nissho Mam, and last month it got an order...
...never taught so much football in my life," he sighed wearily to his wife. "Mistakes decide ball games." he told the Packers, and any player who missed a block or dropped a pass instantly felt the sting of his acid tongue. In pre-game pep talks. Lombardi's speeches were like something out of the Spirit of Notre Dame. Once he got down on his knees in the locker room and led the team in the Lord's Prayer. ''You wouldn't think a pro coach could get away with that stuff." says a player...
...closest thing we'll ever have to a pep rally," one participant apologized to his date (referring to Part II, the riot). She smiled. Then a cop, also smiling, pushed them out of earshot...
Certainly a football concert ought not to strive for the heights and depths, but it needn't be spread thin with kitsch, either. Perhaps both choruses should help out at the pep rally and give up for one evening their burden of reviving serious choral music. They're doing only a halfway...