"The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale"
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The real subject, though, is morale, and Adams makes it sound almost mechanical: attacks “had a great effect,” as if courage can be recalibrated by a headline. That’s the subtext that hits: in wartime, victories are partly psychological infrastructure. You don’t just strike targets; you reassure anxious publics, stiffen sailors, quiet the gnawing suspicion that the enemy is dictating the tempo. The Marshall and Gilbert islands are geographically specific, but emotionally they function as far-off proof that the fight is moving outward, away from home.
As an athlete, Adams reads like someone who understands momentum and the locker-room economy of belief. A small win, especially early, doesn’t end the season - it changes how people walk back onto the field. The intent is clear-eyed: record the moment when strategy becomes story, and story becomes stamina.
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| Topic | War |
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Adams, Jack. (2026, January 17). The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-good-news-was-that-enterprise-and-the-newly-24027/
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Adams, Jack. "The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-good-news-was-that-enterprise-and-the-newly-24027/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-good-news-was-that-enterprise-and-the-newly-24027/. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.
