Word: peps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Vice President Walter Mondale suffered a stunning slap in the face in his native state of Minnesota, which has long been considered a liberal stronghold. There, amid the fractious squabbling of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, the G.O.P. scored a major sweep. Despite numerous visits and pep talks by Mondale, despite two trips to the state by the President, the voters turned the Democrats out of the governorship and both Senate seats. In a rueful postmortem, a shellshocked Mondale concluded: "I shouldn't have told them to do it for Hubert Humphrey and me, but to do it for themselves...
Iacocca says that he would like to see his new employer develop a "sports car," suggesting that something like the Mustang, which made Iacocca's reputation as a marketing whiz at Ford, may be in Chrysler's future. Iacocca is also expected to inject some new pep into the company's dealer organization. The real test of Iacocca's ability will be in how well he can maneuver within the narrow limits imposed by Chrysler's tight financial circumstances. The auto industry has changed dramatically since he introduced the Ford Mustang in 1964: costs...
Howard also felt that her rah-rah style of pep and emotion didn't wash with her upperclassmates. "It's an individual psyche here, not a group thing. Everybody had to be laid back and act like they were cool," said Howard, who went on to play varsity basketball that first year before joining the track team as a junior...
...worse than that, the big and powerful Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) wouldn't shake hands with King, and after his ballyhooing pep rally cheer simply lumped King with the rest of the statewide candidates after singling out senatorial candidate Paul Tsongas for praise, King became noticeably more uncomfortable. The next day, of course, his aides would explain that King and Kennedy have never been close political allies. As for the boos, well, "They probably came from the Tsongas people, or somebody's staffers," Barry Kaplovitz, issues aide to King, quickly adds. "If there were a few boos...
...Crimson can still win the championship, provided it wins the last three games of the season while Brown and Dartmouth lose two out of three. But those aren't really pep-rally-inspiring odds...