Word: esprit
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...Littauer Fellows were supposed to benefit the School as well as themselves. Planted among the younger students, they could dispense advice from experience picked up during their terms in Washington. Their presence would bolster the administrational esprit de corps of which Littauer is so fond. And most important, they were an antidote to the ivory towered influence that flows from Littauer's brother-sister relation with the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
...joins a regiment named the Halberdiers, to be trained as an officer. To him, as to Waugh (who was himself a captain in the Royal Horse Guards), the Halberdiers are a dream come true. They embody all the sentiments of which Guy was starved in the prewar world. Tradition, esprit de corps, ritual and courtesy are combined with high efficiency and discipline. The Halberdiers still loyally toast their Colonel-in-Chief, the Grand Duchess Elena of Russia, who lives "in a bed-sitting-room at Nice.'' They take "peculiar pride" in accepting whatever recruits are sent to them...
Smallest of all the Houses--335 residents--Leverett has a group feeling, an esprit de corpe, a general pride in the House unmatched anywhere in the system--the Hutch boasts a higher percentage of athletic participants than any other House...
...When a curious kind of madness broke out in the little French town of Pont-Saint-Esprit, doctors stamped it as a medieval disease known as "St. Anthony's Fire," caused...
...week's end, French police had found the miller who ground the ergot-laden rye and a man who acknowledged selling him the grain, charged them both with involuntary homicide. In Pont-Saint-Esprit, the toll of illness passed 200; four had died, 28 were still on the critical list. France considered itself lucky: all the contaminated grain seemed to have gone into that one bag of flour delivered to Baker Roch Briand...