Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only be doubly suspicious of the cooperation Professor Skinner is getting from his birds. A pigeon that can play ping-pong can certainly learn close-order drill; it is only a short step from that to organized rebellion. Buried in Professor Skinner's report is the note that at least one of his pigeons appeared on a window sill and virtually volunteered for the experiment; the word is obviously getting around. As far as we're concerned, pigeons exist solely to give monument cleaners a chance to earn an honest living. An educated pigeon will inevitably try to get something...
...exhibition of jets and other U.S. aircraft, and (in the afternoon) a baseball game. Tempelhof field was jammed by 100,000 Berliners who had turned out with baby carriages, folding chairs and lunch boxes to see the show. Star attraction proved to be the famed seven-minute silent drill of the 558th Infantry Rifle Platoon, a crack Negro outfit which used to be General Lucius Clay's honor guard; the soldiers went without music or orders through intricate, breathtakingly precise evolutions that would have overwhelmed the British Grenadiers-or the Rockettes. Exclaimed one former Wehrmacht noncom: "Why, they...
Harvard's 236 Navy Reserve students, 111 Air Force students 38 Field Artillery students, and a stray cocker spaniel joined the close order drill on the Lacrosse Field near the Business School...
...special military band from Fort Devens will provide musical accompaniment during the half-hour of marching. Adding to the occasion, the last regular drill of the year, there will be a selected massed color guard...
...nicely rounded program in Italy. The refineries will buy crude from Standard's Near East fields (thus saving Italy $4,200,000 annually in dollar imports), will sell refined products to SIAP (Standard-Italo Americana Petroli), Standard's Italian marketing subsidiary. Standard would also like to drill for oil in the Po Valley, where government-subsidized explorations have already struck a rich supply of methane gas. But Standard has run afoul of the old Italian law, which gives the government absolute title to all oil and minerals discovered beneath the surface of the earth. Standard wants...