Word: pep
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While the rest of his unit unloaded its gear on the outskirts of the city, Dan went to the Tal Ara base, a rocky military outpost overlooking the city, to make a final check of the target's coordinates. Then Dan rejoined his men and gave them a pep talk. In speeches like these, he addresses his troops as "lions." Based on the accounts of the soldiers after the operation, Dan and his unit moved into the casbah at 2:30, using their preferred mode of transport--their feet. "You have to walk very, very carefully," he says. In groups...
...Lehmann-Haupt and yoga instructor Bess Abrahams, presents Hatha yoga--inspired exercises designed to fight flight fatigue. The guide gives flyers ways to stretch and relax at each leg of the journey, from security to baggage claim. Exercises include Heavy-Luggage Hand Stretches, Red-Eye Foot Flexes and Deplaning Pep Walks. Drawings accompany the easy-to-understand text, and many moves use available props like waiting-area chairs, meal trays and barf bags (the last are wrung to release wrist tension). The stretches are effective, yet the book's attitude stays light (a benefit of the Mile High Thigh Tone...
...fact, the best part of this production of The Fantasticks is its pure entertainment value: the goofy cuteness of Ellingson’s death scenes, Odell’s delightfully overdone antics and McAuliffe’s perfectly endearing naiveté. Though Luisa could have used more pep in her songs, on the whole, the production’s very slight bobbles (like some awkward leap-frogging by Averell and Moss) add only to its carefree charm...
Vellucci once drove to New Haven for the Harvard-Yale football game and found his way to the Bulldogs’ locker room to deliver a beat-Harvard pep talk...
...Harvardians are all bookish four-eyes too busy concocting chemical formulas to do the pep rally thing. Where’s the school spirit...