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Word: drilled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sneered years ago as "our beloved chicken statesman," "our potato politician." When Stalin put Nikita in charge of the Moscow party back in the '30s, Khrushchev used to don navvies' rough clothes, crawl down to visit the sandhogs tunneling out the new subway, take a hand with a pneumatic drill, and talk with the lads in the unprintable language for which, even in the Kremlin, he is famous. The palace courtiers dubbed him "Comrade Lavatory Lover" because Nikita not only insisted on equipping the Moscow metro with the world's best subway toilets, but often broke in rudely on conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MAN OF THE YEAR: Up From the Plenum | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

...just saw Grushenka. But can she act?" A quick look at Gervaise settled that. Brooks arranged a lunch at MGM. They gave her the script to read. "I could hardly breathe," Maria recalls; but the next day she had breath enough to harangue Brooks and Brynner "like a Prussian drill sergeant" about why she should have the part and Carroll Baker should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Golden Look | 12/30/1957 | See Source »

...innards of the city's steel-and-concrete underground operations center. But Portland's citizens let viewers down. Mobilizing to the immobile narration of Cinemactor Glenn Ford ("quietly, with caution, but without panic"), the actors behaved with the equanimity of Perry Como in a high school fire drill, rendering unnecessary the slides CBS periodically superimposed over the actors to explain: "AN ATTACK IS NOT TAKING PLACE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

Then Lyle Guttu turned in the best shot of the night, a hard drill in the lower left-hand corner. B.C. star goalie Al Pitts never had a chance on it. Two minutes later at 15:56 sophomore Gillie scored his first varsity tally, a really heads-up shot on a rebound from defenseman Dan Ullyot...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: Hockey Team Slaps BC, 6-1 | 12/12/1957 | See Source »

Radcliffe officials speculated that the boys intended to ring the fire drill bell, but instead rang the alarm which summons the police and fire department...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boys Ring False Fire Alarm, Call Firemen, Police to 'Cliffe | 12/5/1957 | See Source »

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