Word: pepped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said White House Spokesman Larry Speakes as he watched a replay of the speech. Although he has embodied Uncle Sam for five years now, Reagan still does so by chastising the Government he heads. "A lumbering giant," he called it, "slamming shut the gates of opportunity." His national pep talk affirmed again and again his belief that "family and community are the co-stars of this great American comeback...
...about an autographed puck from Harvard goalie Jennifer White? A shattered stick from Co-Captain Genie Simmons? A recording of Coach John Dooley's pre-game pep talk to the girls before last Saturday's Vermont game...
Dukakis, who taught at the Kennedy School from 1979 to 1983 after he was voted out of the Statehouse, gave what he called a "pep talk" to the more than 400 students in the Arco Forum...
...when Vanities opens with three high school cheerleaders planning a pep rally, we jaded Harvard students are inclined to be skeptical--skeptical about whether any of us could possibly pull such a play off, and skeptical about the worth of any play which focuses on the lives of three vain cheerleaders...
...President was just as adamant with his advisers in private. A National Security Council meeting called to consider the Soviet proposal last week turned into "a pep rally for SDI," according to one participant. While the White House did not absolutely rule out the idea of negotiating over Star Wars, the meeting discouraged in-house arms-control advocates hoping to trade off U.S. advances in missile defense for Soviet reductions in offensive weapons...