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  • All that work was great for my morale.†   (source)
  • To see one of their own priming the opposition did something to the team's morale that hours of practice could not overcome.†   (source)
  • I'm sure you should fix them, if not for you for the sake of company morale.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • As June turned to early July, my morale dwindled.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • There was a novelty to it; she was good for morale.†   (source)
  • It would lower her morale, making her more susceptible to his mind games.†   (source)
  • Morale is good and she is ready to go home.†   (source)
  • He was in charge of morale.†   (source)
  • But Betsie's main concern was not for the morale of Harry and Cato, it was for their very lives.†   (source)
  • A symptom of bad morale and general slipshoddity.†   (source)
  • Morale among the population was high, and enthusiasm grew hour by hour.†   (source)
  • Morale hit rock bottom.†   (source)
  • After thirteen years, morale among the Alyssians was low.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • This could all be a vicious psychological trick played on us by the main enemy to damage our 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)
  • But the thing is, he kept on bitching about the issue day after day, and morale in the office was affected.†   (source)
  • Morale seemed to be at a low ebb for several of the expeditions at Camp Two.†   (source)
  • I tried to jack up my morale.†   (source)
  • The Ra'zac separated, then regrouped, only to be swept away as the soldiers' morale broke and they ran.†   (source)
  • He hung up without speaking, but the infinite distance of that unapproachable voice weakened his morale.†   (source)
  • To keep our morale up, we sang with discordant enthusiasm.†   (source)
  • They had an example to set just as she did as a reader and morale-booster.†   (source)
  • Will Richard's morale suffer if you do not get home?†   (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)
  • People's morale was not so bad: we were beginning to get used to the situation.†   (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)
  • To sap our morale.†   (source)
  • Then our morale would be high because we'd be together.†   (source)
  • Morale is terrible.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • The fact that the troops had not been paid for weeks did not help morale or alleviate hardships at home.†   (source)
  • What's going to happen to their morale?†   (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)
  • Thus there was little evidence of the invasion's impact, a detriment to morale.†   (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)
  • Our greatest warrior serves alongside the least, thus improving morale, unity, and discipline throughout the battalions.†   (source)
  • JANE But surely, in a war of this nature, for the morale of the nation you must expect ....OLUNDE That a disaster beyond human reckoning be spoken of as a triumph?†   (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)
  • That's what undermines the morale of an organization.†   (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)
  • Their morale was low as he tried to use the time etching out plays on his chalkboard.†   (source)
  • Simply being allowed out of the cramped cave improved the verbeeg's morale tenfold.†   (source)
  • It's for morale.†   (source)
  • "Yes, I do," Tiny said with conviction, "and I'm concerned it will affect the morale of our other editors and reporters."†   (source)
  • Everything about the retreat—starvation, poor morale, desertion—speaks of failure.†   (source)
  • But the morale is simply amazing.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • They were quite valuable, after all, to the wellbeing and morale of the camp, and vigilance would be in order.†   (source)
  • He asked about the pay, the leave, the morale, the canteen; he asked about their love-life, their gossip, their philosophy.†   (source)
  • The memory of defeats followed by eventual victory in the Revolution helped bolster Confederate morale in similar times of trouble.†   (source)
  • Don't you see, our morale is the only thing we have left in this hellhole.†   (source)
  • The morale of his crew was now becoming important to the captain.†   (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)
  • Bad for morale, for one thing.†   (source)
  • Measures are being taken to improve discipline and morale.†   (source)
  • Her management style has been great for employee morale.
  • The coach built morale with tough training and a couple of easy non-conference games.
  • The letter from home boosted her morale.
  • I decided that mentioning these things might affect group morale.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • So he says, 'Well if it's good for morale, then I guess it's all right with me.'†   (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)
  • He gave Annabeth an embarrassed look, as if realizing he wasn't helping team morale.†   (source)
  • Morale boosting typically involved a celebration.†   (source)
  • Was for Greg's morale and Lenore's, too; Lenore and Milla had been close.†   (source)
  • The root of our morale is: "Everybody works, everybody fights."†   (source)
  • Her husband is very valuable, we must take good care of his morale.†   (source)
  • Morn's beer will be good for morale, and that's worth more than a few extra meals.†   (source)
  • How dangerous were they to the morale and cohesion of Union armies?†   (source)
  • They were obtuse; their morale was good.†   (source)
  • MORALE IN THE BRITISH RANKS had never been higher.†   (source)
  • It was an embarrassment to the government and a boost to our morale.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • It would boost morale seven hundred percent.†   (source)
  • —or ginger ale?" bluntness; it's good for anybody's morale to be asked.†   (source)
  • Whole lot of unrest and bad morale, if we want to face facts.†   (source)
  • At first it had been mental hygiene, protection of his morale.†   (source)
  • They realized that passive acceptance of their plight would strengthen enemy morale.†   (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)
  • Oh yeah ...the one where I tell the world what a great job you're doing in exchange for —' '— for raising everyone's morale!' snapped Scrimgeour.†   (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)
  • "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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • The presence of an unseen Afghani tracker was very bad news for me, not least for the remnants of my morale.†   (source)
  • Morale among the Dutch can't be good.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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.... I thought either Joan must be crazy-wearing rubber boots to work-or she must be trying to see how crazy I was, believing all that.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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 Harry's morale; perhaps Dumbledore knew it, for he added, "Voldemort's mistake, Harry, Voldemort's mistake....Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth...Now, you first this time, and be careful not to touch the water."†   (source)
  • Our morale sunk.†   (source)
  • Sweet Janie boosts a man's morale.†   (source)
  • "It's a matter of morale," Venkat said.†   (source)
  • It's a huge drain on morale.†   (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)
  • Morale is lower.†   (source)
  • Their morale is low.†   (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)
  • "Is this so they have to go back to the fortress naked and their embarrassment will negatively affect morale?" said Jace.†   (source)
  • There are advantages to this and disadvantages, but we do it for reasons of morale; no trooper ever hits the ground on a hostile planet without an officer.†   (source)
  • When you looked at the process of rebuilding the organization and morale, you had to win the battle against graffiti.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Keeping up 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)
  • Our morale was much improved.†   (source)
  • His spies captured a note from one of Lee's aides, detailing the poor morale and horrible conditions the Confederates are experiencing.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • He wrote, too, of the low morale among officers whose pay was not enough to defray even ordinary expenses.†   (source)
  • But the M. I. is a free man; all that drives him comes from inside — that self-respect and need for the respect of his mates and his pride in being one of them called morale, or esprit de corps.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Mom and Dad need to boost morale.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Besides the obvious fact that drop & retrieval require the best pilots (i. e., female), there is very strong reason why female Naval officers are assigned to transports: It is good for trooper morale.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • To hurt their morale.†   (source)
  • Fiddlework, apparently — officers' club officer, morale officer, athletics officer, public information officer, recreation officer, PX officer, transportation officer, legal officer, chaplain, assistant chaplain, junior assistant chaplain, officer-in-charge of anything anybody can think of, even — nursery officer!†   (source)
  • Marvelous what it does for morale.†   (source)
  • For six months during the winter and spring of 1862-1863, this question seriously sapped Union army 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)
  • Morale will suffer.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • That superb 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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....Let [the war] be long or short meat or no meat shoes or no shoes [we are] Resolved to fight it out ...for the sake of liberty ...if we give it up now we will certainly be the most degraded people on earth."†   (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)
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