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  • She tried to boost our morale by suggesting clever strategies for getting into the Land of the Dead, but my heart wasn't in it.†   (source)
  • The lieutenant went on and on with his speech, which was a combination of instilling in the civilians that what we were doing was right and boosting the morale of his men, including us, the boys.†   (source)
  • Happiness had disappeared along with rubber, silk, and many other staples, to be replaced by the wartime synthetic, high morale, for the Duration.†   (source)
  • After thirteen years, morale among the Alyssians was low.†   (source)
  • All that work was great for my morale.†   (source)
  • As June turned to early July, my morale dwindled.†   (source)
  • The report detailed bad morale, numerous procedural violations, and the alarming conclusion that training standards for the 747 "classic" were so poor that "there is some concern as to whether First Officers on the Classic fleet could land the aircraft if the Captain became totally incapacitated."†   (source)
  • Morale is good and she is ready to go home.†   (source)
  • All over the country people are trying to get hold of an old radio that they can hand over instead of their "morale booster."†   (source)
  • And Ender would return to practice with his leaders, trying to keep up their morale, but sometimes letting slip his disappointment with their weaknesses, the fact that they made mistakes.†   (source)
  • Morale seemed to be at a low ebb for several of the expeditions at Camp Two.†   (source)
  • The accepted explanation was that these poor chaps were so badly damaged that it would be bad for civilian morale if they were seen in public.†   (source)
  • It would lower her morale, making her more susceptible to his mind games.†   (source)
  • Morale hit rock bottom.†   (source)
  • However, the whole movement received a severe blow to its morale on July 22, when Saddam's sons, Uday and Qusay, who were at least as evil as their dad, were finally nailed at a house in Mosul.†   (source)
  • "I'm sure you should fix them, if not for you for the sake of company morale.†   (source)
  • But Betsie's main concern was not for the morale of Harry and Cato, it was for their very lives.†   (source)
  • To keep our morale up, we sang with discordant enthusiasm.†   (source)
  • There was a novelty to it; she was good for morale.†   (source)
  • A symptom of bad morale and general slipshoddity.†   (source)
  • They had an example to set just as she did as a reader and morale-booster.†   (source)
  • It is, after all, important to form a clear view of them both technically and in terms of their impact on general morale.†   (source)
  • He was in charge of morale.†   (source)
  • Morale among the population was high, and enthusiasm grew hour by hour.†   (source)
  • To sap our morale.†   (source)
  • He hung up without speaking, but the infinite distance of that unapproachable voice weakened his morale.†   (source)
  • It felt a little strange having the patient's wife encourage me—for me to be on the receiving end of morale boosting.†   (source)
  • I tried to jack up my morale.†   (source)
  • Nadia and her colleagues spent much of that day staring at the television next to their floor's water cooler, but by afternoon it was over, the army having decided any risk to hostages was less than the risk to national security should this media-savvy and morale-sapping spectacle be allowed to continue, and so the building was stormed with maximum force, and the militants were exterminated, and initial estimates put the number of dead workers at probably less than a hundred.†   (source)
  • Lord forbid Minerva should see me, she'd give me one of her talks about morale.†   (source)
  • But the thing is, he kept on bitching about the issue day after day, and morale in the office was affected.†   (source)
  • Moreover, from what Garzhvog had said, he guessed that maintaining morale among the Varden was going to be even more difficult for Nasuada once everyone learned about the soldiers.†   (source)
  • "Will Richard's morale suffer if you do not get home?"†   (source)
  • The Day of Protest boosted our morale, made us realize our strength, and sent a warning to the Malan government that we would not remain passive in the face of apartheid.†   (source)
  • The people's morale was not too bad; we were beginning to get used to the situation.†   (source)
  • He has come to believe that morale is a big factor—that an office is more honest when the employees like their boss and their work.†   (source)
  • This could all be a vicious psychological trick played on us by the main enemy to damage our morale.†   (source)
  • At the sight of the great gray clouds forming in the west, morale immediately sank and the men untied their slickers, resigned to a long, cold, dangerous night.†   (source)
  • We saved our change in a bucket, and on weekends we went to the MWR [the base's Morale, Welfare, and Recreation center] and had Pac-Man wars for hours, till our quarters ran out.†   (source)
  • He was still supremely fit from football and the high-school track team, so the rigors of basic training weren't as memorable to Mortenson as the poor morale he found endemic in the post-Vietnam military.†   (source)
  • By the time he bought the car, his morale had soared and he was beginning to enjoy the trip: his ability to get information and help from strangers, their attraction to him, their generosity (Need a place to stay?†   (source)
  • Thus there was little evidence of the invasion's impact, a detriment to morale.†   (source)
  • Then our morale would be high because we'd be together.†   (source)
  • What's going to happen to their morale?†   (source)
  • Morale is terrible.†   (source)
  • Their morale was low as he tried to use the time etching out plays on his chalkboard.†   (source)
  • The fact that the troops had not been paid for weeks did not help morale or alleviate hardships at home.†   (source)
  • Our greatest warrior serves alongside the least, thus improving morale, unity, and discipline throughout the battalions.†   (source)
  • That's what undermines the morale of an organization.†   (source)
  • JANE But surely, in a war of this nature, for the morale of the nation you must expect ….†   (source)
  • "Yes, I do," Tiny said with conviction, "and I'm concerned it will affect the morale of our other editors and reporters."†   (source)
  • Reticence or an itch to make public confession may distort or dramatize what is really there to be said, and public expressions of belief are so closely associated with inspirational activity, and in fact so often stem from someone's desire to buck up the downhearted and raise the general morale, that belief becomes an evangelical matter.†   (source)
  • They were quite valuable, after all, to the wellbeing and morale of the camp, and vigilance would be in order.†   (source)
  • It's for morale.†   (source)
  • The memory of defeats followed by eventual victory in the Revolution helped bolster Confederate morale in similar times of trouble.†   (source)
  • Everything about the retreat—starvation, poor morale, desertion—speaks of failure.†   (source)
  • Simply being allowed out of the cramped cave improved the verbeeg's morale tenfold.†   (source)
  • But the morale is simply amazing.†   (source)
  • But by then Peace Dragoons had been dragged out twice in night on what seemed to be Warden's orders, further disrupting morale, and Warden became convinced he was surrounded by traitors in official family while they were sure he had blown every circult.†   (source)
  • But there's something—Jesus God—there's something I do to people's morale downtown that I can't stand to watch much longer.†   (source)
  • But I couldn't allow Jep to keep making the same mistakes because it wasn't fair to our other employees and was bad for morale.†   (source)
  • Earth had taken a pounding and morale was rock bottom.†   (source)
  • Don't you see, our morale is the only thing we have left in this hellhole.†   (source)
  • Bad for morale, for one thing.†   (source)
  • "Tiger hunts, border disputes with neighboring kingdoms, keeping up the morale of the harem, a bit of botanical research-things like that-the stuff of life," said Sam.†   (source)
  • He asked about the pay, the leave, the morale, the canteen; he asked about their love-life, their gossip, their philosophy.†   (source)
  • Measures are being taken to improve discipline and morale.†   (source)
  • The morale of his crew was now becoming important to the captain.†   (source)
  • The coach built morale with tough training and a couple of easy non-conference games.
  • The letter from home boosted her morale.
  • Her management style has been great for employee morale.
  • '— for raising everyone's morale!' snapped Scrimgeour.†   (source)
  • I decided that mentioning these things might affect group morale.†   (source)
  • Minerva and I just had a talk about morale.†   (source)
  • I won't deny that morale is pretty low at the Ministry," said Fudge.†   (source)
  • Then, with his hand, he showed me which part of his morale got boosted.†   (source)
  • If that happens, we need to keep morale up.†   (source)
  • Lockhart's idea of a morale-booster became clear at breakfast time on February fourteenth.†   (source)
  • It was rough on morale, but we soldiered on.†   (source)
  • "We're seeking a way to boost morale," Dad added.†   (source)
  • When the radiation makes you too sick to vomit, they hand out rubber vomit, for morale.†   (source)
  • So he says, 'Well if it's good for morale, then I guess it's all right with me.'†   (source)
  • He gave Annabeth an embarrassed look, as if realizing he wasn't helping team morale.†   (source)
  • Her husband is very valuable, we must take good care of his morale.†   (source)
  • How dangerous were they to the morale and cohesion of Union armies?†   (source)
  • Was for Greg's morale and Lenore's, too; Lenore and Milla had been close.†   (source)
  • It was an embarrassment to the government and a boost to our morale.†   (source)
  • They were obtuse; their morale was good.†   (source)
  • Morn's beer will be good for morale, and that's worth more than a few extra meals.†   (source)
  • MORALE IN THE BRITISH RANKS had never been higher.†   (source)
  • "It takes a bit more than morale," Longstreet said.†   (source)
  • Half a dozen of Chick Morrison's morale conditioners went scurrying off toward telephones.†   (source)
  • Morale boosting typically involved a celebration.†   (source)
  • You talk about undermining people's morale!†   (source)
  • What impact that difference had on morale and fighting effectiveness is hard to say.†   (source)
  • The office of the Morale Conditioner has-†   (source)
  • But just wait and see what happens to my morale.†   (source)
  • Morale was deteriorating and it was all Yossarian's fault.†   (source)
  • The morale conditioners were shrieking what they guessed they thought Mr. Mouch would think.†   (source)
  • It will break the last of the country's morale and economy!†   (source)
  • Morale there was ebbing rapidly, and Dunbar was under surveillance.†   (source)
  • We must preserve our discipline, our morale, our unity and our sense of broad-minded tolerance.†   (source)
  • The men are unhappy and morale is beginning to deteriorate.†   (source)
  • The editor had refused; he had stated that it would be bad for the country's morale.†   (source)
  • —or ginger ale?" bluntness; it's good for anybody's morale to be asked.†   (source)
  • It would boost morale seven hundred percent.†   (source)
  • Whole lot of unrest and bad morale, if we want to face facts.†   (source)
  • They realized that passive acceptance of their plight would strengthen enemy morale.†   (source)
  • At first it had been mental hygiene, protection of his morale.†   (source)
  • The root of our morale is: "Everybody works, everybody fights."†   (source)
  • They received a rousing welcome at the Gryffindor table, where everyone was wearing red and gold, but far from raising Ron's spirits the cheers seemed to sap the last of his morale; he collapsed on to the nearest bench looking as though he were facing his final meal.†   (source)
  • "It is the strict adherence to daily routine that tends towards the maintenance of good morale and the preservation of sanity," he says out loud.†   (source)
  • Aunt Petunia seemed to feet that the best way to keep up Dudley's morale was to make sure that he did, at least, get more to eat than Harry.†   (source)
  • There is no doubt at all in my mind that his death would be proclaimed as widely as possible by the Death Eaters if it had happened, because it would strike a deadly blow at the morale of those resisting the new regime.†   (source)
  • I had these bunions, I could hardly walk-in the last days I had to wear rubber boots to work, instead of shoes, and you can imagine what that did to my morale….†   (source)
  • Morale among the Dutch can't be good.†   (source)
  • It has left our troops slightly outnumbered, but we are confident that with the fresh draft next month will come lifted morale, not to mention a swelling of fresh forces.†   (source)
  • It is agreed that to help boost morale among the watching prisoners, two more goals can be scored, as long as they lose by one goal in the end.†   (source)
  • Yet we hesitated, not wanting to make this a personal issue, feeling that if we did, the controversy could erupt and affect the morale of the entire hospital staff.†   (source)
  • However, in the interests of employee hygiene, morale, and group spirit-building, my higher-ups have agreed to make a one-time exception in the regulations for this purpose.†   (source)
  • My morale had become so low that in some self-destructive way I hoped she would kill me, and I felt that eventually she would.†   (source)
  • Morale had hit rock bottom when my chief risked his life early one morning—by that I mean he entered my room and shook me awake.†   (source)
  • The presence of an unseen Afghani tracker was very bad news for me, not least for the remnants of my morale.†   (source)
  • As I crossed the Far Common I saw that it was rapidly becoming unrecognizable, with huge green barrels placed at many strategic points, the ground punctuated by white markers identifying offices and areas, and also certain less tangible things: a kind of snap in the atmosphere, a professional optimism, a conscious maintenance of high morale.†   (source)
  • Keeping up morale?†   (source)
  • Sweet Janie boosts a man's morale.†   (source)
  • They're all saying, 'Ay, Jefe, you've done so much good for our province' 'Ay, Jefe, you've raised strong morale after sanctions' 'Ay, Jefe:" Tio Pepe crooned to imitate the cronies.†   (source)
  • These words did nothing to raise Harrys morale; perhaps Dumbledore knew it, for he added, "Voldemort's mistake, Harry, Voldemort's mistake….†   (source)
  • Our morale sunk.†   (source)
  • "It's a matter of morale," Venkat said.†   (source)
  • It's a huge drain on morale."†   (source)
  • I didn't understand why she was reminding me of that prophecy line right now It wasn't exactly a morale booster, but before I could say anything, Kronos raised his sword.†   (source)
  • Morale is lower.†   (source)
  • "Is this so they have to go back to the fortress naked and their embarrassment will negatively affect morale?" said Jace.†   (source)
  • When you looked at the process of rebuilding the organization and morale, you had to win the battle against graffiti.†   (source)
  • Their morale is low.†   (source)
  • The Ra'zac separated, then regrouped, only to be swept away as the soldiers' morale broke and they ran.†   (source)
  • However, it was more important to shore up Orrin's confidence than to commiserate with him, for if his resolve weakened, it would interfere with his duties and undermine the morale of his men.†   (source)
  • Cassius continued to rally the others around him and was soon backed by Glensather, who had guessed at the spokesman's goal of increasing morale and recognized the value of it.†   (source)
  • His only tempering note was how he had described the present time as a "miserable situation," an appraisal that seemed highly regular, if somewhat disloyal to our morale and cause, and which, no doubt, was undeniably true.†   (source)
  • It was impossible to raise his morale.†   (source)
  • It was, Roran believed, a style of command that undermined a man's morale, as well as discouraged creativity and invention from those underneath you.†   (source)
  • As contrasted with earlier, wartime morale-boosting "quickies," this film would have the scope and stature of an epic.†   (source)
  • His spies captured a note from one of Lee's aides, detailing the poor morale and horrible conditions the Confederates are experiencing.†   (source)
  • But regular gun captain was on job, was no harm in girls learning to handle lasers, morale was obviously high; I gave matter no more worry.†   (source)
  • The authorities attempted to impose a complete blackout; they did not want us to learn anything that might raise our morale or reassure us that people on the outside were still thinking about us.†   (source)
  • Dave Severance would later write, in his report on Doc, that "I observed him repeatedly running to any sector of the company zone of action to render first aid," and that "it would be hard to estimate the number of lives he saved by his prompt and skillful administration of medical aid, carried out with complete disregard for his own safety, nor to fully express how stimulating his devotion to duty was to the morale of those who served with him and were treated by him."†   (source)
  • He wrote, too, of the low morale among officers whose pay was not enough to defray even ordinary expenses.†   (source)
  • They insist that withdrawing from Gettysburg, giving it back to the enemy, would be bad for morale, is unnecessary, and might be dangerous.†   (source)
  • Our morale was much improved.†   (source)
  • Mom and Dad need to boost morale.†   (source)
  • This brand-new copy of Julius Caesar will certainly keep the president's mood upbeat, which, in turn, will do wonders for Mary's morale.†   (source)
  • Certainly, I had heard of the longtime mobilization of such a corps, in Northern China and in the Philippines and on other islands, and like everyone else appreciated the logic of deploying young women to help maintain the morale of officers and foot soldiers in the field, though I never bothered to consider it until that night.†   (source)
  • Besides that, Wyoh's organizations, Stilyagi Air Corps, Stilyagi Debs, Ladies from Hades, Irregulars (kept for morale and renamed Peter Pan's Pirates), and Lysistrata Corps—all these halfway-military groups reported through Wyoh to Finn.†   (source)
  • Ever since Admiral Yamamoto's transport plane had been ambushed and destroyed by American fighter planes some eighteen months before, the general mood and morale, if still hopeful, had certainly not been as ebullient and brash as it was in the high, early times of the war, when the Burma Road fell, and Mandalay.†   (source)
  • And you know every soldier in the army feels the same way, and it's one of the reasons why the morale here is so good and the Union morale is so bad, and isn't that a fact?†   (source)
  • This law exacerbated the class tensions that a number of historians have identified as undermining Confederate unity and morale.†   (source)
  • Everything "dear and valuable to freemen" was at stake, he said, calling on their patriotism to rally morale and commitment, but also expressing exactly what he felt.†   (source)
  • Marvelous what it does for morale.†   (source)
  • To hurt their morale.†   (source)
  • It was the same nightmare prospect he had faced at Boston exactly a year before, and with the misery of the men greater now than ever, and morale suffering, there seemed every chance that his army would evaporate before his eyes.†   (source)
  • For six months during the winter and spring of 1862-1863, this question seriously sapped Union army morale.†   (source)
  • Brave, popular "Old Put" might be the man to boost morale, but he had neither the experience nor the temperament to direct so large a force under such conditions and was thus a poor choice, as Washington seems to have realized almost at once.†   (source)
  • Morale will suffer.†   (source)
  • At a low point in Confederate morale in 1864, a Mississippi private insisted that "the old Troops are not as near whiped as the citizens at home….†   (source)
  • That superb morale.†   (source)
  • The proclamation intensified a morale crisis in Union armies during the winter of 1862-1863, especially in the Army of the Potomac.†   (source)
  • Writing to Governor Trumbull earlier, Washington had prophesied that some "lucky blow" would "rouse the spirits of the people," but he could hardly have imagined how stunning the effect of the news of Trenton would be on the morale of the country.†   (source)
  • We're going to glorify you and send you home a hero, recalled by the Pentagon for morale and public-relations purposes.†   (source)
  • It would have a great influence on them, it would buttress their confidence, it would help their morale.†   (source)
  • In any case, the decline of morale proved short-lived, for the Union armies did not fall apart and soon won some of their most decisive victories of the war.†   (source)
  • His problem was a squadron of aviation cadets with low morale who marched atrociously in the parade competition that took place every Sunday afternoon.†   (source)
  • And morale certainly declined—although defeatism and lack of faith in Union leaders may have had more to do with this than the Emancipation Proclamation.†   (source)
  • It's the fellows who go around doubting and destroying our morale, it's they who're keeping us in shortages and misery.†   (source)
  • Their morale was low because they did not want to march in parades every Sunday afternoon and because Lieutenant Scheisskopf had appointed cadet officers from their ranks instead of permitting them to elect their own.†   (source)
  • The removal of McClellan from command, the disaster at Fredericksburg, and the fiasco of the Mud March had caused morale in that army to plunge to an all-time low.†   (source)
  • Chick Morrison attempted a whistle-stop tour to buttress the country's morale by speeches on self-sacrifice for the general welfare.†   (source)
  • The Morale Conditioner-that's Chick Morrison-has called me three times, to make sure that nothing would go wrong.†   (source)
  • Confederate prospects for victory appeared brightest during the months after the Emancipation Proclamation, partly because this measure divided the northern people and intensified a morale crisis in Union armies.†   (source)
  • We had to have morale, didn't we?†   (source)
  • It's supposed to be disastrous for public morale, if any prominent person quits, and Jim doesn't want them to know that he's got a deserter right in his own family…… But that's not all.†   (source)
  • It was 7:50 when Chick Morrison, the Morale Conditioner, who seemed to be in charge, cried, "AH right, boys and girls, all right, let's take our places!" waving a bunch of notepaper, like a baton, toward the light-flooded circle of armchairs.†   (source)
  • It's considered most importanton the highest levels, I mean Chick Morrison and Wesley Mouch and Mr. Thompson, as high as that-that you should make a speech to the nation, a morale-building speech, you know, saying that you haven't quit.†   (source)
  • Two husky men walked by his sides; they were from the department of Morale Conditioning, but did not trouble to hide what method of conditioning they would welcome a chance to employ, "Just remember Mr. Thompson's orders," one of them told him contemptuously.†   (source)
  • But five million dollars was being spent by the office of Morale Conditioning on the People's Opera Company, which traveled through the country, giving free performances to people who, on one meal a day, could not afford the energy to walk to the opera house.†   (source)
  • The newspapers, like puppets on tangled strings, were shouting with the same belligerence and on the same dates: "It is social treason to ascribe too much importance to Hank Rearden's desertion and to undermine public morale by the old-fashioned belief that an individual can be of any significance to society.†   (source)
  • She had called a meeting of the Terminal track laborers for the alleged purpose of boosting their morale, she had held the meeting twice, to face all the men in turn-she had repeated the same unintelligible speech, feeling a stab of shame at the empty generalities she uttered and, together, a stab of pride that it did not matter to her any longer-she had looked at the exhausted, brutalized faces of men who did not care whether they were ordered to work or to listen to meaningless…†   (source)
  • From across the street, Chick Morrison, the Morale Conditioneron his way to a conference on the fifty-ninth floor-noted that the rare, lethargic passers-by were not taking the trouble to glance at the guards, as they did not take the trouble to glance at the soggy headlines of a pile of unsold newspapers on the stand of a ragged, shivering vendor: "John Galt Promises Prosperity."†   (source)
  • …time that Danagger Coal was late in delivering fuel to Taggart Transcontinental, in the last week of December, Danagger's cousin explained that he could not help it; he had had to cut the workday down to six hours, he said, in order to raise the morale of the men who did not seem to function as they had in the days of his cousin Kenneth; the men had become listless and sloppy, he said, because they were exhausted by the harsh discipline of the former management; he could not help it if…†   (source)
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