Word: esprit
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...lighting of the yule log and cucumber sandwiches--for years a staple at Mrs. Perkins' Thursday afternoon teas--are about the most tangible things one can point to in the House's character. The many similar traditions are a proof of its distinctiveness, of a certain "esprit de corps," as Housemaster Eliott Perkins '23 puts...
...reserve units stick together outside of the classroom. Many extracurricular activities are sponsored by the groups themselves to keep up an esprit de corps. Rifle matches, basketball games, mimeographed tabloids, dances, and movies help relieve the monotony of the courses...
...Esprit de Lattre. Ho's men outnumbered the French three to one. They were armed with bazookas, mortars and some artillery. Their staff work was good. They excelled in attack. Their men traveled light and fast, each carrying 500 rounds of ammunition, sometimes going without rations for 48 hours. This would have been enough in the old days to win the battle for Hanoi, French-held capital of North Viet Nam. It was no good against the new esprit de Lattre of the anti-Communist army...
True to Army tradition, the G.I. bitched as hard as he praised. Front-liners who disagreed with TIME'S combat accounts wrote their versions to our editors or to the correspondents they met in battle. Army men protested hotly when we reported that Marine esprit de corps gave leathernecks a lower percentage of "missing in action" casualties...
Last week there was new evidence to support the military axiom that carefully cultivated discipline and esprit de corps pay off in combat effectiveness. In Washington, the Defense Department revealed that only 26 men of the U.S. Marine Corps had been reported "missing in action" since the beginning of the Korean war. This was about 1/174th of the 4,517 marine casualties so far announced. Army men "missing in action" amounted to about one-sixth of verified Army casualties...