Word: esprit
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Both teams should, by rights, be psychologically "down" for this game, for they both gave inspiring performances last Saturday. Moreover, Army will miss the esprit de corps provided by its vigorous cheering section, but neither of these factors should dull the fierce blocking, tackling, and running of the team that ranks sixth in the nation in total offense. That's the fearless Army...
...news conference, he looked a little like a man who could use one. The usually natty Mr. Truman seemed almost rumpled after a day that began at 5 a.m.; by late afternoon h's shirt was mussed and his four-point breast-pocket handkerchief had lost its Esquire esprit. For the first time in months, Harry Truman seemed to have a little trouble keeping the reporters in hand...
...months that followed, G. S. began to collect the extra curricular appendages that characterized the college itself. A newspaper, yearbook, alumni association, athletic program made their appearance, and one professor commented that G. S. was building up an "esprit do corps...
Radford brought to this fight much more than narrow departmental esprit de corps, more than the questionable methods that were used by the Navy in its desperate attempt to make its points. At Annapolis he absorbed the great U.S. tradition of sea power-the tradition that led U.S. Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan to explain to the British how they won and held their empire, the tradition which explains Winston Churchill's grasp of strategic problems...
...stand them," he replied promptly. "They don't have any feeling about France or democracy, but they have the 'esprit de la legion...