Word: esprit
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...unit was a horse drawn outfit which had a polo team; but, because the horse has ceased to be important or used in war, the team no longer exists. Thus, many 'little soldiers' no longer sign up," said McClure. But he emphasized that the unit will attempt to develop esprit de corps by many other social functions...
...Navy's other witness, General Alexander Archer Vandegrift, U.S.M.C., had his own argument: what would become of the Marine Corps and its esprit de corps under the merger? The Army had answered that in advance; it would go on operating as it always had, under the Navy and its Under Secretary...
...death would be only a beginning. In Manila Colonel Alva Carpenter was preparing a war-criminals list running into thousands of names. Prison-camp atrocities (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) spurred preparations for punishing the guilty. What ever the shortcomings of the U.S. Regular Army brass might be, lack of esprit de corps was not among them. The war-crimes provisions of the surrender would be enforced by men raging mad at what the Japs did to fellow U.S. soldiers...
...names and serial numbers are different, because of replacements. But even where the names and serial numbers are the same, the men have changed. Outfits which were green as grass in the Solomons and New Guinea have now been hardened and heartened by victories. They have cohesion, esprit de corps and battlewise leadership...
...little stifled there: the Pirandello in him is always edging out the Pinero. In Foolish Notion Barry has held to the drawing room, but has carefully thrown open its windows to the mysterious night air. The result is that child of fashion and fantasy. a jeu d'esprit...