Word: drill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first results were all too military, but the mind soon came to outrank the manual of arms. Though all Culver boys above eighth grade are enrolled in R.O.T.C., drill is confined to Saturday mornings in warm weather. Hazing is nonexistent; newcomers are plebes for only one term, are obliged only to call old students "Mr." More important are Culver's stiff entrance exams (average cadet IQ: 120) and drill in such matters as college algebra, Latin and Russian. Often recruited from Culver's resoundingly successful summer camp, the boys seem to thrive on the school's theory...
...They have the benefit of better guidance, testing and prodding." New "discovery" approaches in math, physics and chemistry, for example, make learning more alluring. TV has apparently boosted vocabularies and widened horizons. Cheap paperbacks have put poets and philosophers in any hip pocket. Along with language labs that make drill palatable go new courses in the techniques of studying. "They have learned how to read rapidly, how to summarize, and how to take notes," says one teacher. "Now, when confronted with a problem, they don't say, 'How do you do it?' They know...
...Oilmen's "mud," which is actually a suspension of clay and various chemicals in water, differs in formula depending on whether it is being used to lubricate a drill bit, float rock chips out of the way of the bit, or seal a shaft against blast. To plug a well, "weighted mud" of powdered clay and barium sulfates mixed to the consistency of cake batter is used...
After SGA had discussed this proposal, a member suggested that the group review the traditional fire drill procedure. 'Cliffles must now successfully pass eight drills during the year, following the procedure outlined on four pages of Redbook, the Radcliffe rulebook...
...force. Because of army protests in 1959, Defense Minister Peng Teh-huai was replaced by more pliable Marshal Lin Piao, who instituted a new and supposedly chastening system of sending officers into the ranks for one month each year to wear "ordinary soldiers' uniforms and to eat, live, drill, labor and play together with fellow soldiers." Even generals undergo this treatment, which seems clearly designed to discourage the emergence of an officer caste...