Word: pep
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Granny & Gas Bill. The Labor Party wound up its family outing at seaside Scarborough with a brave show of working-class solidarity. Hit of the show was 69-year-old "Granny" Nelly Cressall, Labor's grand old lady, whose pep talk was recorded and will be played at street corners during the campaign. Excerpt: "I remember the days when my neighbors used ter come and ask me fer a penny fer the gas meter-and I 'adn't got it. Now they come creatin' about their big gas bills. It makes me mad-'aven...
Last week, less than 48 hours after he had taken office, Christenberry got a fine example of just what Columnist Smith was talking about: the featherweight championship fight between Sandy Saddler and Willie Pep. After nine rounds of butting, thumbing, gouging-and one wild wrestling spree which brought the referee down in a free-for-all tangle-Pep sullenly threw in the towel...
...comrade in arms, Cartoonist Bill Mauldin plays a young soldier who takes everything with deadly seriousness-from a fistfight in which not a blow is struck to the shattering moment when he and Murphy overhear a general describe their regiment as worthless, just before giving the boys a pep talk and ordering them to attack. With no more continuity or plot than the battle it describes, Red Badge is mostly memorable for its tight vignettes of human confusion. It ends on an appropriately ironic note: the jubilant regiment, having driven back the Confederates, learns that its hard fighting had little...
From then on, the Crimson seemed to lose their pep. Bennett banged in his second goal six minutes after Harvard scored, and although Harvard took five shots before the half ended, it didn't take more than three or four more in the whole second half...
Angels in the Outfield (MGM) answers an orphan's prayers by summoning down a heavenly host to help the Pittsburgh Pirates win the National League pennant.* Paul Douglas, as the team's profane manager, spurns this divine assistance until a thunderbolt and some pep-talks from Archangel Gabriel turn him into a true believer...