Word: drill
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Freezing winds yesterday forced the varsity football team to alternate between Briggs Cage and the regular practice field as it went through its final home drill of the season...
Secrecy again cloaked varsity football practice, as the team readied for Saturday's game at New Haven. As in past years, workouts have been closed to the press and public all week. In a post-drill conference, however, Coach Lloyd Jordan told reporters that "We've made progress this week--we think. We've had some good practice sessions." He added that yesterday's drill consisted of signal drills on both offense and defense against the JVs working out of an Eli T-formation...
...Cares?" All too often she found that her students had no desire to learn. Whatever wit they had, they directed mostly to thinking up excuses for being late ("I was dreamin' about ya, Mrs. Beal, an I didn' wanna wake up"), and finding ways to resist vocabulary drill ("So who cares? I say a woid like dat an all my frens laugh at me. Nobody know what dat woid means"). Almost every class had its sullen and defiant pupils who would yawn, lounge, drum, stamp, and wander about at will. Whether they worked or not, they knew that...
Bolivia's professorial President Victor Paz Estenssoro, struggling to rid his poverty-stricken nation of its longtime dependence on tin exports, signed a decree last week opening the way for foreign capital to come in and drill for oil. As the government's cut, the new Bolivian law demands 11% of the crude oil produced, plus 30% of net profits, plus a yearly concession tax of a few cents an acre...
Undisturbed by attacks of the Boston press. Lloyd Jordan yesterday sent his Crimson football squad through an intensive pass defense drill in preparation for the Princeton game Saturday...