Word: peps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WPTF in Raleigh and several other stations wanted to carry Kaltenborn's pep talk to the soldiers. That required remote equipment (for hooking into telephone lines). So Private Shearer journeyed to Fayetteville, found a radio station, accosted the engineer, and said: "By the authority vested in me, I should like to borrow your remote equipment." Said the engineer: "Get the hell outa here...
Speaking of the track team, Jaskko Mikkola called it a "singing team full of pep, with plenty of spirit." In the cancellation of the Dartmouth meet he saw a blow to the team, however because the men cannot be kept in a state of psychological suspense for long. "It is not a team of stars," he said, "but it has great endurance and strength...
...Edward Spencer Cowles, head of the lucrative Body & Mind Foundation, was up on a platform addressing an audience of 300. In popped the police, led by Assistant Attorney General Bernard Bienstock. Thus after 19 stormy years Dr. Cowles's treatment of nervous socialites with brown medicine and mass pep talks came at least temporarily to a halt...
...MacLeish dispelled apprehensions, cleared up the "What can I do?" question and told the broadcasters what kind of guidance they could expect from his office henceforth. Among matters soon to be set right by OFF and a Broadcasters' Victory Council in Washington: excessive bunching and repetition of appeals, pep talks, the national anthem...
Admittedly, bulletins from the war zones must go through an intricate process of sifting before they can be "released for publication"; but whoever is supervising this sifting would do well to imitate the English experiment of omitting pep-lines and telling the public the worst. Confronted by the truth, the British people have remained steadfastly without panic, and without spurious optimism...