Word: esprit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...encouraged to write imaginatively about offbeat and humorous subjects. After two weeks in Cedar Rapids, for example, the new Register bureau chief filed a delightful yarn about how the city's street plan made it impossible to go north. This kind of creative license adds to the esprit de corps in the newsroom. Says Managing Editor David Witke: "For many of the people on the staff, the Register is the place they most wanted to work when they were young. This is the place they hoped...
...heroic age," says Riesenberg with both premature nostalgia and the esprit of a pioneer who is also his own historian. Next year, or the year after, the center could deteriorate into a rest-and-recreation area for tired professors who can't make it to the next sabbatical-the stuff that satirical novels and Senator William Proxmire's "Golden Fleece" awards are made...
...mess up. Eight other guys are depending on you, and a single missed stroke of the oar can easily lose the race for everybody." A teammate adds, "You really feel like one machine--your oars are going in together, coming out together, you rest together." The sense of esprit de corps, if not total unity, is also naturally heightened over the long course of pre-season training and in-race competition. "When you're sweating and toiling with somebody six days out of the week, nine months out of the year, it's easy to become very close friends," said...
...Party credentials, but the jury is still out." Edward Campbell, the current chairman in Iowa, complains that Carter seems unable to inspire the party: "Democrats don't have an anti-Carter fix, but they have no leadership, no direction, no emotion. We ought to be looking for an esprit de corps...
Despite the one-sidedness of the final results, both teams have maintained their respective esprit de corps through the years, and for the visiting squad the match is nothing short of a golfing crusade. At the same time the Walker Cup Match has been essential in fostering the spirit of comraderie that exists between golfers on both sides of the Atlantic...