Word: drill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recruit in ten without a fourth-grade education, the U.S. Army announced a program of "transitional training" at seven training centers to give G.I.s book learning with their bayonet drill. The program will teach reading, writing, arithmetic and citizenship, will take two to four weeks depending on how fast recruits pick up what they missed in school...
...University, in agreement with the highest military planners, has supported the ROTC units because it has believed one of a university's duties is to provide liberally educated men for wartime leadership. In keeping with this philosophy, course credits and drill fields have been offered the three ROTC units...
...items are perfect jewels, or course. A few are trivial, a few fail stylistically, at least in sports, and the poems are generally unsuccessful. But the first rate predominates--the title piece, "Farewell, My Lovely," "The Morning of the Day They Did It," "Air Raid Drill," and "Death of a Pig," for instance, are as fine as almost anything White has written...
...show will feature a drill with 35 members skating to the accompaniment of the rest of the band in the stands. After forming a large Y at the middle of the ice, the skaters will then collapse it against the end boards to the tune of "Oh where, Oh Where Has My Little Dig Gone?" The band's theme song since the Yale football game this fall...
...drill will mark the first time that an eastern band has attempted such a stunt, although it is reported that one of the mid-western bands did it several years ago . It was conceived by Manager Alan S. Novick '55, Arnold H. Aronson '56 and Rogers, who thought up the details of the drill itself...