Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the last war hit the University, all intercollegiate contests were cancelled and the only required exercise was the marching and rifle drill that was part of the military training courses held on Soldiers Field...
...Drill Does It. A.V.G. pilots were not rakehell supermen who needed no discipline and could worry along with second-rate planes. They were-and are-super-pilots. Every man among them got a postgraduate education from the onetime schoolmaster from Waterproof, La. who left the Air Corps in 1937 with the conviction that only war would prove his combat theories...
...flag with 1,300 stars to denote U.S.C.'s contribution to the fighting forces. Sorority girls who turned up their noses at privates a year ago will go necking with them now. Just after Pearl Harbor the prevailing attitude was "eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we drill"; in the first blackout last winter, U.S.C. fraternity men made merry chasing around sorority houses. Now they take blackouts seriously...
...sugar rationing had been clamped over the U.S. sweet tooth with hardly a twitch from the nerve. But now OPA's drill burred deep into the rawest nerve of the U.S. citizen. Getting to work and home again was a tough problem; getting shopping done and business trips made was suddenly a matter of elaborate planning...
...Every Hedgerow. Not likely to be confused with the Grenadier Guards, on their regular Sunday drill the Home Guards nevertheless looked like able fighting men. A two-year scrounge for armament had equipped them all with firearms, even if some were ancient fowling pieces. Most of them had uniforms and steel helmets; in the most dangerous invasion zones they had Bofors guns, machine guns, light mobile Smith guns and a thing called the Blacker Bombard, which lobs 14-or 20-pound high explosive shells at moving targets (the Home Guard practiced with old baby carriages) with startling accuracy...