Word: pep
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...first hour of each workday is another pep session with its numbing presentations. Then there is time for lunch on the way to the area to be covered. Around 4 p.m. canvassing begins...
...face of Czechoslovakia's steadily sagging economy and its even limper national morale, Communist Party Boss Gustav Husak last week decided that the time was ripe for a good pep talk. Before 700 workers at the Skoda auto works in Pilsen, he admitted: "Quite a lot of people are falling into some sort of depression. They are spreading panicky moods, as if our state and all of our society were facing some sort of bankruptcy from which there is no way out." Husak thereupon assured his listeners that he would be better for them than either of his predecessors...
...alone parrots, have learned to deplore Viet Nam by now, so this particular arsenal of invective doesn't stir up a Modcom audience as visibly as it once did. Time was when playgoers would weep on their armrests at the old "We won't go" non-fight pep talk...
...idea of easy euphoria has been underscored as the variety and use of legitimate pills have proliferated. One-quarter to one-third of all the medical prescriptions now written in the U.S. is tor a mood-altering pep pill or tranquilizer; newspaper, magazine and television ads hammer away at the theme that relief is just a swallow away for any condition, from nervous tension to drowsiness. As Sociologists William Simon and John H. Gagnon write: "Modern medicine has made drugs highly legitimate, something to be taken casually and not only during moments of acute and certified stress. Our children...
...pressure the Mexican government to help stop the illegal flow of heroin, marijuana, and pep pills into...