Word: peps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World War I, and the newer "catharsis" in which, by means of persuasion with or without drugs, the despairing soldier is made to spit it out. Still most common, because it takes less time, is the old-fashioned method. The anxious soldier is given rest, sedatives, food and psychiatric pep talks. These are usually given so that all the ward may hear - only the most personal part of the discussion is sotto voce. The question is asked repeatedly: "You want to go back and try again, don't you?" The man is led to think that giving...
Best summary of O. & E.'s education program is its own 36-page bible: Guide to the Use of Information Materials, a mixture of mild-mannered good thoughts, tough pep talks and salty advice...
...clock. As it switched over from peace to war production, General Motors switched from old to new methods of talking to its workers. Instead of reviewing their role in the war effort, it revues it. It's Only the Beginning (produced by Soundmasters, Inc.) is a ginger-coated pep talk that points a moral with newsreel excerpts, talks shop in swing time, says "Thanks, boys" with dimpled knees like Peggy Moro...
Adams House, in a final splurge plugged by pep talks in the dining hall, topped the mark of $1161 set by Dunster with the aid of a personal appearance of the movie actress, Carol Bruce. The Gold Coasters' total was $1490 in stamps and bonds, of which half was raised in the last four days of the campaign. Lowell House, starting some time after the opening date of the campaign, September 14, collected $300, most of it last night, after a last-minute speech...
...Sergei Iliushin, head of a state airplane-design bureau, revels in the reputation of a Man-Who-Gets-Things-Done. Stalin often visits Iliushin's offices, gives unexcited pep talks to the staff. When Hitler went on his rampage, Iliushin began to toy with the idea of a flying tank-buster. The seed of the idea was the memory of a frying pan with which many a Russian flyer armor-plated his plane seat in World War I. Out of the frying pan came the fiery Stormovik, which has destroyed so many Nazi tanks that the Germans renamed...