Word: peps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Technicolor cross sets the tone neatly for the television service, a bland but professional blend of folksy, pep-talk piety and bubbly, inspirational hillbilly music-a Norman Vincent Apeale to a Lawrence Welk constituency. The music is no mere come-on; in the hour-long show, Humbard's sermon usually takes little more than 15 minutes. The Cathedral Singers-including Rex's wife Maude Aimee, a pert, peppery, brunette soprano who becomes properly demure for the Gospel numbers-are the stars. Smoothly pancaked, eyelashed, and carefully coiffed in styles of the '60s, the girls come...
...Pep Yells. Many of Yazoo's kids, Morris says, objected to being sent to private segregated schools. The public schools had their traditions, not the least of which were athletic, and the influx of black players added measurably to the quality of Yazoo's teams. Black and white athletes even began exchanging soul slaps on the field. White cheerleaders picked up black musical cadences in their pep yells...
...Princeton you've got to swallow everything the first year. It's like a damned prep school. " Amory agreed. " Lot of pep, though, " he insisted. " I wouldn't have gone to Yale for a million. " -"This Side of Paradise...
...worked over the boxers. as each stared in disbelief at his opponent across the ring. Farneti hit the bell off center and it responded with a tinny thud. The boxers' reaction was similar. They staggered to their feet and moved slowly to the center of the ring. The ol' pep was gone...
...Democratic majority. With the state executives in Washington, the White House worked overtime to woo their support for the revenue-sharing plan President Nixon promoted in his State of the Union message. There was a black-tie dinner at the White House featuring Bob Hope; there were pep talks from Vice President Spiro Agnew and Treasury Secretary John Connally, a briefing with jazzy slides and graphs from Presidential Assistant John Ehrlichman and a closed-doors pitch from Nixon himself...