Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spring drill for the ROTC will begin officially on April 5, the Department of Military Science and Tactics announced yesterday. The regiment, drilling once a week, will be divided into batallions and batteries, and conducted in about the same fashion as in the past...
...when he was 17, he entered the guttural, drill-sharp barrack routine of the German Imperial Army. Then came the four grey years of World War I. After that Germany was a shambles of street fighting, depression, inflation. For flat-nosed, flabby-faced Theodor Eicke, the world was horrible; the only meaning in it was to claw his way over the others and reach the top of the muck heap...
...works harder than any commercial name band. Its members are up early in the morning for calisthenics and rifle drill. They also have machine-gun practice. From 1 o'clock in the afternoon until dinnertime they rehearse everything from Tchaikovsky to Cow-Cow Boogie. Four nights a week they broadcast with such assisting talent as Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Edgar Bergen, Jack Benny, Dorothy Lamour and Fanny Brice. Their U.S.-sponsored programs, two over coast-to-coast networks, are Thursday's Wings to Victory, Friday's Hello Mom, Saturday's Soldiers with Wings, Sunday...
Colonel Wood has been commander of Fort Ethan Allen, where Field Artillery R. O. T. C. men spent their summer drill periods until last year, when that part of the Mil Sci program was suspended for the duration. A graduate of Virginia Military Institute, he has the reputation of being a strict disciplinarian...
...Fire drills may come and fire drills may go, but one will live forever in our memories. It was our first, but we have reason to believe not our last. At two in the morning the fire-bell started its clanging, loud and persistent. We made a pretty sight, streaming into the living room in pajamas, heavy shoes, bathrobes popped by overcoats, carrying towels and rubbing our eyes. Now that we know what t do in a fire drill, we're expectantly awaiting an air raid drill. Diversions never cease...