Word: peps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...than many other Indochina experts. Their testimony in Winter Soldier documents the unique brutality encouraged in young GI's by Vietnam combat and their training at home. In this war atrocities are premeditated and recurring, not isolated aberrations. Marines receive a short lesson in cruelty during their pre-embarkation pep talk, when the company officer strangles a small rabbit, skins it, and throws its carcass at his men. "You can get anything you want out of that," said one former Marine...
Today, with a 4-2 record the Bulldogs are a half game behind frontrunner. Dartmouth and the Harvard contest is vital to the Elis championship aspirations. There is notice for pep talks for Carmen Cozza's squad they know what they must do they have to play rough and pray enough. The prayers are for Penn who plays the Dartmouth Big Green in Philadelphia. There will be a lot of converted Quakers wearing, blue and white uniform today in the Stadium...
...slippery sponge. The game, which was supposed to have been a romp for the Trojans, turned into a tossup. After 30 minutes of fumbles and false starts, neither team had scored, and U.S.C. sloshed into the locker room at half time for the Trojan equivalent of a pep talk. It was hardly the stuff that movies are made of. McKay quietly told his defensive unit that "you can make it happen." He reminded Quarterback Mike Rae that he had "the right to ask officials for a dry ball." Gently, the coach called on everyone to show more aggressiveness...
...innovative ways, McKay holds to a prosaic philosophy: "Players win; plays don't." As a recruiter, he stays close to home: of the 100 U.S.C. players currently on scholarship, only five are from out of state. McKay's pitch-like his pep talks-is low-key and persuasive: a good education, a lucrative summer job, a chance to play with a proven winner and an influential assist at landing a job after graduation. If a high school star is good enough to look forward to a pro career, McKay lets it drop that 27 former U.S.C. players-more...
...Mary, 17, is a senior in high school and an occasional poet. She recently went through her own moral struggle over religion and left the Methodist Church to become a Roman Catholic. Her specialty is the pep talk. "I gave a little talk in Prince Georges County, Md., to the volunteers. I told them they were the backbone of the campaign, and that my father would win in November because of their hard work. I did it in 30 seconds...