Word: pepping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...engagement, emerged in Michael Benthall's production as a great big simple-minded heroic-comic pageant. Shakespeare is actually the least simpleminded of dramatists, and even this frankly jingoistic exercise in banner-waving is also a subtle, even ambiguous, study of kingship and the attributes required for it. The pep-rally ambience, however, is much more vividly dramatized, and probably tends by its nature to overshadow the "deeper" element. At any rate, the wooing scene was delightful in the Vic version, and the rest was at least pretty good...
...economy last week showed a seasonal briskness that put new pep into the statistics. Private housing starts hit the highest level of any month since September 1955 with a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,260,000. The nation's industrial output edged up another point to 138% of the 1947-49 average, 9% above the recession low. With unemployment still dropping between September and October, consumers stepped up their buying in the nation's department stores by 2% over a year ago. And steel production, reported the American Iron and Steel Institute, rose to the highest level...
...University Administration and the Cambridge police have completed plans to put into effect "massive security measures" against the possible appearance of Radcliffe cheerleaders in the Stadium tomorrow, or at the "pep rally" this evening...
...modern. Let's make it a nesting place for local pigeons. Or let's run up a block and tackle and turn it into a parking place for motorscooters. The Shelf might make a fine vantage point for cheerleaders, of either sex, to stir the hearts of a Square pep rally. And at other times, sections and tutorials could meet there...
...countered with an offer to let the cadets go to the Stanford game in Palo Alto. Protested the cadets: "We'll beat Stanford anyway, sir, but the team needs us at Iowa." The answer was still no. The cadet wing gathered in the courtyard for a pre-game pep rally and set up a din that would not be denied. General Sullivan explained patiently that the trip would involve a 20-hour bus ride each way, that it would cost every cadet $25. Each objection was met with a roar of dissent. General Sullivan gave in. The entire cadet...