Word: peps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Autumn is a season of bonfires, pep rallies, red-dogs and touchdowns-as well as the time for presidential candidates to make their climactic quadrennial sprint toward Election Day. "Both football and press-the-flesh politics are peculiarly American institutions," says Associate Editor James Atwater, the writer of this week's cover story who has observed those peculiarities at close hand for three decades...
...people. That initial one was inspired by French Laywoman Marie Tamisier to foster devotion to the Eucharist and belief in Christ's "real presence" in the elements of bread and wine. Like the 40 subsequent congresses, it was an occasion for spiritual fervor, a kind of all purpose pep rally...
...close come late October. The Democrats put Cezar Chavez up there, and I saw as many women as men on the platform and almost as many on the convention floor; there were also enough black people on hand so Madison Square Garden didn't resemble a Brigham Young University pep rally, like the Republicans in Kansas City undoubtedly will. The potential mass left-wing in America is with the Democrats now--the huge number of working people with everyday worries about family and money and being taken advantage of by the "special interest" hucksters and their men like Reagan...
...Pep Talk Quality. Baptists have long claimed that sense of mission, one that transcends secular organization. Their ministers are as varied as former Georgia Governor Lester Maddox and former White House Press Secretary Bill Moyers, but no one conveys the Southern Baptist spirit more powerfully than Billy Graham, the Baptists' premier evangelist. His message is often one of sin and hellfire, but there is also a pep-talk quality that has encouraged millions. In his best-selling book, Angels, Graham conveys that quality when he writes: "Because our [spiritual] resources are unlimited, Christians will be winners. Millions of angels...
...session at first seemed to be a mutual pep rally. "Anybody who gets the impression that we're going to quit is crazy as hell," declared Ford. Sounding like Knute Rockne at half time in a Reagan movie, he added: "We're coming out fighting. We'll be there in Kansas City to the end. And we're going to win!" The leaders applauded again...