Word: drill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ready for launching last December (just as the PERT charts predicted), the men who had been chosen to manage her fantastic hardware were as impressive as the ship herself. Commander James Butler Osborn, the crewcut, square-jawed skipper who looks like a football player, talks like a Marine drill sergeant and thinks like a well-trained engineer, seemed almost in love with his exquisite command. "This ship," he insisted, "is not a problem in physics; it's an article...
...glover. He was one of the town's official aletasters, and donned the scarlet robes of high bailiff, or mayor, when Will was four. The boy presumably went to Stratford's King's School -no doubt unwillingly, since the schools of the day consisted of Latin drill, long hours (7 a.m. to 5 p.m., often longer in summer), and Spartan discipline...
...they are taking half their current needs from inventory. Appliance, farm-machinery and construction-machinery industries are also raiding their large inventories instead of ordering steel at their production rates. The oil industry is one of the few that are actually using less steel. Because of the slowdown in drilling, it has substantially cut the use of steel for tubing, casing and drill pipe...
...deal, MIFERMA will develop electric power and provide fuel oil, build a 400-mile railroad from the iron mines to Port-Etienne, widen and improve Port-Etienne itself. After completion, the port facilities will be turned over to the government. Also important to parched Mauritania, MIFERMA will drill wells to tap the underground reservoirs recently discovered not far from Port-Etienne...
...knows where Castro's madness will drive him next. Cuba already has the look of a nation at war. Black-bereted militia drill in Havana's parks, empty lots, and along the seaside Malecón drive; children's yellow-shirted militia go from door to door begging contributions for "arms and planes"; the government TV station puts on a nightly street-corner "defense" telethon for arms funds...