Word: drill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...right, you girls, is everybody out? Very nice. Very nice. Thought this was just a fire drill, didn't you. (Soft laughter.) Well, not exactly. (Chuckles...
...amateur cooks, having Julia Child on TV is as rewarding as it would be, say, to amateur painters to have Andrew Wyeth giving a weekly drill in sketching. She delivers her points with a kind of muddleheaded nonchalance that invites others to feel that if she can do it, anybody can. As she putters over items like roast goose with a stuffing of pate-filled prunes or a simple mousseline de poisson a la marechale, she mutters archaically about the "icebox," refers to the ventral area of the bird as its "chest," advises using "a few good whaps of pepper...
...well. Embarrassed officials of Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson's government could only reply that security measures were being tightened at armories all over Quebec. In their zeal, soldiers even paid a midnight call on a fashionable prep school and took away the cadets' World War I drill rifles...
...sleuth cannot get into the target room, he will usually work from an adjacent room or corridor, where he may be able to slip a bug into an electrical outlet or heating duct, which are often back-to-back. Otherwise, he may drill a small hole through the wall and poke a thin plastic tube into it, just short of the far surface, so as to siphon sound waves into a microphone next door...
...companies that have flocked offshore have to drill down through as much as 300 ft. of water and 16,000 ft. of mud and shale. A single successful well costs as much as $3,000,000, about six times the cost of a similar dry-land operation. The lease on a giant three-legged drilling platform, such as Kerr-McGee's Kermac 54, now jack-legged this week into 180 ft. of water 80 miles from shore, runs to $8,000 a day. Oil companies so far have invested $4.25 billion in offshore operations, recovered $1.75 billion...