Word: peps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boos began in the second round. They stopped momentarily in the third, when jiggling Jersey Joe Walcott threw a punch that knocked Champion Joe Louis to his knees. Then the boys lapsed back into their waltz. The referee barked at them to pep it up. The big fight-the famed Brown Bomber's last-was smelling up Yankee Stadium...
Setting forth on this errand, he headed south with a whoosh, traveling like an over-the-road trucker trying to roll his rig home before morning. The pace wilted his helpers, but after three punishing days Dewey was still full of pep and rich with delegates...
...pep-talk" to proctors before last semester's finals, Mr. Leonard did tell us to keep ourselves in the background. However, what effect that might have had was more than counter-balanced by his general attitude which was more that of a tamer of leopards and wildcats than of a supervisor of examinations to be taken by Harvard students. The assumption seemed to be that students cheat, and proctors are there to catch the criminal delinquents who are serving at this institution. Mr. Leonard's tone and attitude was insulting to me as I listened and realized that after...
...pretty sure they weren't accomplishing a thing. Savage changed all that. He did it by singling out the incompetents and cowards by name, leading the group on most of the missions. If his discipline and briefings read like a cross between any army manual and a football pep talk, many a combat man will remember that just such near-Rover Boy leadership paid off in the clutch...
...pleased with the progress of the team, as it rounds out its next-to-last week of spring practice. He is surprised at the amount of spirit shown by everyone. Candidates started the training period with so much pep that Valpey had to tone down practice sessions, keeping them quiet as possible, so that players could concentrate on absorbing the fundamentals of the Crisler system...