Word: peps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Knute Rockne, All American [1940]. The life story of college football's greatest coach, starring Pat O'Brien. A couple of years ago Patty returned to Notre Dame to give a fantastic reenactment of the inimitable half-time pep-talk in the film when Knute Rockne inspired a losing Notre Dame team to "hit one for the Gipper." (George Gipp, one of the greatest running backs in all of football died in his senior year at N.D.). This was the night before a football game, and the atmosphere was something like a cross between ancient fertility rites and classical Bacchanalia...
...mond-headed walking stick. A crowd of bikers, kept behind a chain-link fence, roared their approval, and moments later stomped on a U.P.I, reporter and ground out a cigarette butt on his forehead. Enraged by the surly Knievel's unavailability for interviews, reporters joked about "holding a pep rally for Snake Canyon," and one reporter, Larry McMullen of the Philadelphia Daily News, wrote: "Even though the canyon is the underdog, it is rapidly becoming a sentimental favorite...
Cabinet members came around Wednesday morning for a 15-minute slide show on the achievements of the Administration in improving the design of federal buildings. Alexander Haig, the White House staff chief, went to the meeting to give a pep talk. The President did not attend...
Just when the boys are most full of self-pity, beginning to wonder whether they have any kind of claim to each other's friendship and support, the coach steps in with his old pep talk. He plays a recording of the last ten seconds of the big game, and as the boys sit up and listen the bitterness begins to fade. Then the bad feelings disappear altogether as the coach plays the old school fight song and everyone stands up to sing...
...Kevin Phillips, 33, a onetime Nixon campaign aide. Syndicated in about 125 papers, Phillips' crisp columns have harshly criticized the President for diverting Republican opportunities for conservative reform into "pep rallies, zigzagging, shallow domestic policies, dress uniforms for the White House police, and real estate deals with aerosol kings." Phillips has balked at impeachment because of "the chaotic consequences of allowing pressure groups to bring down a President...