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...White House Speechwriter Ken Khachigian put together a rough draft, which Reagan reworked sporadically during a Camp David weekend. Crammed as it was with fiscal details, the speech could not display Reagan at his rhetorical best. For once, the master of the TV homily and the after-dinner pep talk appeared not only ill at ease but even a bit defensive, as he spent some of the opening minutes talking earnestly about programs he would not cut, most notably, veterans' and basic Social Security retirement benefits...
...hand, there were memorable eruptions of unprogrammed exuberance. At Manila's Baclaran Church, John Paul's mere appearance sent 2,000 nuns into a wave of near ecstasy. During a pep rally at the University of Santo Tomás, tens of thousands of students lustily chanted "J.P. Two, We Love You-You Are Super." The highest pitch came in Cebu, the cradle of Philippine Catholicism, where the city's population doubled for the day. Thousands had waited in the open air since the previous night to catch a glimpse of the Pontiff...
...first two periods we were really playing lousy," forward Greg Olson said after the game. "I have to give a lot of credit to coach [Billy Cleary], he gave us a pep talk in the locker room, and laid it on the line. It got us determined...
Even if freshmen arrive here determined to resist the lure of Harvard-think, they often find themselves giving in. Paul Manina "didn't go to all of that pep-rally stuff;" he's just not the type. But by the time the Yale game rolled around, "you feel some sort of weird school spirit whether you want to or not." With-Yalies around he "felt obligated to defend the school down the line, meaning every word...
...Keith Oberg halftime pep talk brought the ruggers to life. Charlie Bott, who finished with an awesome 150 of the team's 247 season points, tallied two tries within ten minutes to complete the scoring and put the game away. The backs threatened constantly but the tight officiating, slippery footing and strong winds stifled any further drives...