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Judique as of a brilliant light on the horizon. The maple leaves had fallen and they lined the gutters of the asphalted streets. It was a day of pale gold and faded green, tranquil and lingering. Babbitt was aware of the meditative day, and of the barrenness of Bellevue blocks of wooden houses, garages, little shops, weedy lots. "Needs pepping up; needs the touch that people like Mrs.
Sinclair Lewis - Babbitt

"He sounded as though he was pepping up his team to do or die in a mercuryball game." "This is no game," said Tom. "We're fighting starvation, perhaps death! And, believe me, if this colony goes the way of all space dust, it will be a long time before there'll be another fleet of a thousand ships gambled on a star colony!" Logan nodded his head. "That's the way I look at it, Tom," he said.
Carey Rockwell - The Space Pioneers
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