Word: peps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...told a visiting diplomat, "but it's crisis No. 1 to me." Last week Sadat was doing his best to make it crisis No. 1 for the rest of the world as well. Wearing a khaki uniform, he viewed sandbagged positions along the Suez Canal and delivered bellicose pep talks to the troops. "I have come to tell you," Sadat said, "that the time to fight has come, that there is no more hope. Our next meeting will be in Sinai...
...meeting continues in this same vein, more a press conference than a pep talk. Finally, about an hour after he arrived, McCarthy is ready to go. He'll take one more question...
...attempt simultaneously to put pressure on Washington and placate Egypt's increasingly restive army officers. As part of that campaign, Sadat personally donned an army general's uniform last week (for the first time in years) to give an audience of military intelligence officers a pep talk on the coming "battle of destiny and honor" against Israel...
...Year honors. The Cowboys refused and traded Thomas and two other players to the Patriots for Running Back Carl Garrett and one choice in next year's draft. After Thomas arrived at the Patriots' training camp, Mazur gave him and the rest of the team a pointed pep talk: "I don't want any free spirits around here. All I want are football players who want to win." Thomas, who describes himself as "a modified version of a Hessian," apparently didn't get the message. When Mazur tried to adjust his stance in the backfield formation...
...kicking prices up so high. With that in mind, he stretched his usual hands-off approach to private pricing matters just a bit last week and called into the White House leaders of the two sides in the current steel-labor negotiations. He gave them both an innocuous pep talk, urging them to make a settlement that would allow the steel industry to remain at least somewhat competitive in the world. Budget Chief George Shultz assured newsmen that the President "wasn't trying to tell them what to settle for." The Administration is resigned to a steel deal that...