Word: peps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...directors assembled in marathon meetings, occasionally sending out for hamburgers and Chivas Regal. Meantime, employees at Gramco's mock colonial headquarters fended off a flood of transocean phone calls from anxious shareholders in many far-off countries. Emerging from one meeting, Vice President Joseph Jordan delivered a pep talk to worried USIF salesmen. "We are solvent," he said. "If we have to, we'll clear the deck-tighten our belts, cut officers' salaries, drop employees. I get nothing. The shareholders will get paid." That, of course, remains to be seen. Gramco places such generous valuations...
Afterward, some K-State students expressed resentment at the role they had felt obliged to play. Said Rowan Conrad, a graduate student: "This was a pep rally. We've been used. He came here and staged us." Donna Diehl, a junior from Salina, Kans., almost apologized: "I disapproved of the hecklers. They were dumb and weren't accomplishing anything. I found myself clapping just to show them that I didn't approve." Obviously, however, much of the cheering was an uncomplicated endorsement of the President and his message...
...perch high above the highway gives him a special perspective; he can spot traffic patterns developing ahead more readily than the car-bound motorist. He scorns the tourists who dart in and out of traffic. Independent trucking operators pose another hazard, for they often overload their rigs and use pep pills to stay awake on long hauls, which can make them dangerously overtired on the road. The men driving for the big companies superstitiously shy away from rigs that they know have been rebuilt after a wreck. The road limits a man's vision of the world...
Since the children are overactive and irritable, it seems illogical to treat them with pep-pills. Psychiatrists doing research along traditional lines would not have been likely to hit upon this method. The discovery of the drugs' effect was made by Dr. Charles Bradley at the Emma Pendleton Bradley Hospital in Rhode Island in 1937, when he gave Benzedrine to 30 children who had a variety of behavior disorders. The stimulant calmed those who were hyperkinetic, and also improved their school performance. But Bradley's pioneering work was virtually ignored for almost 20 years, mainly perhaps because...
Nasser and leaders from six other Arab nations had just concluded a three-day summit in Tripoli that had served as a great pep rally for new efforts against Israel. They discussed the lack of action on the eastern (Syria-Jordan) front, and Libya's new strongman, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, pointedly criticized "the absence from the battle of some Arab forces." Even as the Arab leaders conferred, the Syrian army, as if stung by the criticism, started strong attacks against Israel. Massed artillery began the offensive with bombardment of Israeli positions. Under the cover of the barrage, Syrian tanks...