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...city of Hankow, Hanyang-and Wuchang, were under heavy pressure. Last month the Communists finally admitted that 600,000 "flood fighters" had been rounded up to work on the Yangtze dikes-more than 100,000 of them inside Hankow, where Red loudspeakers blared stirring martial music and Communist propaganda pep talks...
Then a long pep talk from his coach at Melbourne University convinced him that he had the makings of a track star himself. In December 1952, on a soggy Melbourne track, Landy ran a 4:02.1 mile, the second fastest on record. After that, he aimed high. He set his sights on the fabled four-minute mile. But he was nervous. He had a feeling that someone might beat...
...breakfast cereal [Pep] imparting vim and energy (Tennessee...
...Durham, N.C., Novelist Aldous Huxley took a look at his own topflight British education (Eton and Oxford), and wondered how he stood. It could, said he, "do nothing better for my body than Swedish drill and compulsory football, nothing better for my character than prizes, punishments, sermons and pep talks, and nothing better for my soul than hymns before bedtime and after breakfast...
...Jimmy Carter's lightweight championship of the world. Standing beside him, New York Boxing Commissioner Robert Christenberry nudged the weights into position, squinted at the figures and absentmindedly identified "Paddy" DeMarco as another fellow, a boxer who had been beaten to the canvas just the week before. "Willie Pep," intoned Christenberry...