Word: peps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Summoning her balanced, surprisingly moderate 22-member Cabinet for its inaugural meeting, she delivered what her listeners regarded as a lively pep talk. With impressive confidence, her colleagues reported, she stressed the need of a measured return to more limited government and self-reliance...
...Shero difference is as elusive as the man himself. He leaves the teaching of his methods to Assistant Coach Mike Nykoluk, rarely even watching his team practice. The Rangers receive no win-one-for-the-Gipper pep talks from Shero; he prefers to chalk low-key aphorisms on the locker room blackboard. Sample: UNITY AND HARD WORK IS OUR MOTTO. Shero even leaves the disciplining of the team to the players themselves. Shortly after taking over the badly divided Rangers last June, he approved the appointment of six captains; the six set team policy, levy fines and take turns leading...
...fourth couple, Trevor (Stephen Moore) and Susannah (Delia Lindsay), a pair of neurotic, egocentric twits who have the instincts of termites when it comes to reducing their friends' relationships to rubble. Trevor yearns to "communicate" though he cannot finish a simple declarative sentence, and Susannah gives herself pep talks on self-confidence with the assurance of a snowball crossing the equator...
Allen Carter, 29, who works for International Transtar, explains that for professional drivers, two chief problems are fatigue and boredom. Truckers fight off sleep with speed and pep pills (known as "pocket rockets"), but stories of dozing at the wheel are not uncommon. The only way to make money on the 2½-day trip from Florida to New York is by driving the 23 hrs. straight through. Carter thinks nothing of leaving Chicago and deadheading home to St. Cloud, Fla., without a break...
...there's something about the Crimson I can't put my finger on. He's not found in attendance figures, athletic scholarships, or pep rallies. At Watson Rink, he can't be found...