Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...peoples. . . . A whole generation has been taught not to fight. From earliest childhood a boy is trained not to run risks so as not to break his mother's heart. . . . The result is that in the Army there is an emotional attitude toward getting hurt." Brigadier Chisholm recommends drill as one safeguard against nervous breakdown because 1) it gives a man a feeling that he is part of a group, 2) it reduces him temporarily to the condition of a child for whom all decisions are made. After a good dose of drill, a man can be rebuilt...
...another day and another fifty cents lost on the drill field--maybe your columnist should go back to matching dimes instead of quarters, but dimes seem like kid stuff after being in the Navy for six months...
...Miss Corey thinks we aren't sports--all that hesitancy about volunteering for company officers. Sissies!--and think of the fun Company B had Wednesday afternoon at drill. For a while there was a slight question as to just where they would end up-and-how!--wasn't there, Miss McKenzie...
Last week, the same "A" backfield was different every day, as men started to catch up on their labs and reading period work, and the lack of drill was apparent in the backfield timing all during the game...
Highlight of the brief affair was a close-order drill by the Naval Science regiment, executed with timing and precision. After the ROTC exhibition, which was preceded by a simultaneous salute of welcome to the visiting notables, the entire unit passed before Admiral Theobald, Captain George N. Barker, USN, and Dean Buck...