Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...relentless prober, tough as a drill sergeant with philosophy students, a hollow-cheeked scholar who despised automobiles and movies (the only movie he ever saw was a documentary on the theory of relativity). But hundreds of students flocked to his classroom to join his lifelong search for truth. Where did the search lead him? This week, a year after his death, Morris Cohen gave his answer in the form of a posthumously published autobiography, A Dreamer's Journey (Beacon Press...
...trade with which to make their way in postwar Germany. Every week, from 20 to 30 young wanderers turn up there-boys like 17-year-old, shock-haired Karl Waldhauser, who had been drafted to work in a Russian-zone uranium mine. After three days on a pneumatic drill, Karl escaped and crossed the border at night. Says he: "I never get homesick. Maybe that's because my father and mother are dead. Now I want to be a farmer...
When spring practice ends April 30, Art will have exactly four months away from the drill fields. But this simply means moving indoors to the charts and the blackboard; for during the summer, Art and his staff must re-evaluate the squad's strength on the basis of spring practice and the annual academic harvest. He must also elaborate on his system to fit the schedule and the capabilities of his personnel...
...Light Infantry, and before he was six years old, put him in the care of a senior army officer. Sickly, timid Colonel Rudolph was toughened by being awakened at midnight with a fusillade of revolver shots; then he would be dragged outdoors in early morning and put through a drill. When he seemed to be growing interested in science and politics, he was turned over to a new "tutor" who introduced him to night life and sex. After he had thus contracted "a venereal complaint," he was married to Belgian King Leopold's daughter Stephanie, who described herself...
Chip Gannon and Jim Kenary joined O'Donnell in the defensive backfield with Phil Isenberg and Paul O'Brien backing up the line. Jim Noonan and Kenary handled the bulk of the passing assignments in the offensive dummy drill which followed the defensive workout against the Jayvees. It was in the dummy session that the Crimson functioned most smoothly, going through its latest cycle of plays with a reasonable degree of precision...