Word: pep
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with a pawring left and a ponderous right. Then he pitched forward on his face for Listen's knockout No. 23. Westphal collected $12,000 and a plane ticket back to Germany. Liston got $80,000, of which $18,000 was earmarked for his ex-manager, Joseph ("Pep") Barone, sometime front man for Hoodlum Frankie Carbo...
...used to be that most high schools and colleges fielded brass bands to pep up the Saturday-afternoon football game. In the '20s, somebody dreamed up the idea of leading off the band with a female drum major, and the drum majorette was born. Soon there were teams of majorettes with high hats, tight pants, and chin-cracking dimpled knees. Today the drill teams are almost more active-in regional and national competitions, before TV cameras, on the road-than the school footballers they complement. Their marching and twirling routines are in finitely more intricate than football plays, their...
...more gallantry than Beckett's morgue-attendant austerities call for, stars vocally: she croons, keens, gurgles, fumes and screams at her all-but-silent partner. A bottomless black shopping bag provides the day's events. Finding a toothbrush, she brushes her teeth punctiliously. She swigs some pink pep medicine, kisses an evilly glinting revolver and dons a perkily feathered hat. "These things tide one over," she says. Her talkfest acquires a haunting reflective cadence as it flows between the vapid ("Keep yourself nice, Winnie, that's what I always say") and the apocalyptic ("Do you think...
...Phillies' losing trail has been strewn with heartfelt messages of encouragement from as far off as Puerto Rico and Hawaii. "Hang in there and fight," read one. "We have faith that you'll shake this thing yet," read another. Wading last week through a pile of such pep-talk mail. Manager Mauch shook his head in wonder. "I once thought everybody loved a winner," he said. "But I guess they love a loser more...
Ulbricht also summoned some 1,500 party functionaries for a pep talk. "After all," he said, "when housewives come into the stores and can't find milk or butter, they begin to criticize. You must understand that we have to pay for all our imports with expensive products. Therefore we can't import any more food than is absolutely necessary." Ulbricht also had a few words for the commissars about East Germany's restive farmers. "You must do a better job of explaining questions of international politics," urged Ulbricht, "so that all the farmers understand that...