Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, when ex-Miner Bevan stood up in the House to talk about coal, he went as accurately and painfully as a dentist's drill to the sorest spot in the British Government's war-labor policy...
...London's Brixton Prison, began taking German lessons. / / Antanas Smefona, self-exiled President of Lithuania, discovered living with his wife in a log cabin near Benton Harbor, Mich., is still ecstatic over America's good roads and standard of living. / / Private Hank Greenberg shone in close order drill and calisthenics, won a promotion to corporal. / / Soviet Composer Dmitri Shostakovich (Lady Macbeth of Mzensk) went to work in Leningrad as a fire fighter. / / The public library of Southport, England, threw out 90 books by P. G. Wodehouse, termed them "waste paper." / / Wandering Ex-King Carol of Rumania showed signs...
...personnel of the draft army is as split on this issue of intervention v. isolation as the general public is. But the doctrine of isolation . . . as I have observed it in the Army, is a poisonous thing. . . . Our own officers, to my mind, are not tough enough to drill into the men the idea that Hitler-alone-is our enemy and that Naziism must be destroyed before America is safe. Perhaps somebody ought to quit talking about defense and start talking about war. You'd be amazed at the number of men in the Army today who blindly seem...
...five feet six and under). When the 41st was born, it had no band and wanted one badly. A Negro sergeant collected some battered drums and bugles, made them do until the regiment got a real band. Now the band leads the men of the 41st out to drill each morning, at retreat always plays hymns (The Son of God Goes Forth to War, Abide With Me, God of Our Fathers...
...quick, their faces ashine with sweat and pride. As working engineers, they built three swimming pools, also six concrete bomb shelters for artillery observers at Fort Bragg. They also created a 25-acre lake and use it for landing exercises and practice in assault boats. A kibitzer at this drill last week was New York's Congressman (and Reserve Colonel) Hamilton Fish Jr., who was an officer in a Negro regiment in World...