Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...watch a pitcher, batter, catcher and a runner on second in one glance; sometimes the camera almost stole the catchers' signals. In the third game, 17 hits squirted about the landscape while the Yankees belittled the Braves, 12-3. The ten innings of the fourth game were a drill in aerial photography as four crucial home runs traveled the fences-Hank Aaron's three-runner and Frank Torre's in the fourth; Yankee Elston Howard's two-out, full-count game-tying hit in the ninth, and Eddie Mathews' great...
Tall, spare, drill-pipe-straight Michael Late (after the doctor who delivered him) Benedum got into the oil business in the days when "anybody could drill for oil that was of a mind to. I don't remember ever meeting a geologist or even hearing the word." Benedum, son of a West Virginia cabinetmaker, teamed up with an oilfield roughneck named Joe Trees, and hit oil in Pleasants County, West Va. in 1895. He was soon making $1,500 to $2,000 a month from the property, and drilling more wells, at one point brought in eleven straight producers...
...drill sessions include a fairly heavy dose of repetition of simple, everyday foreign phrases and imitation of the pronunciation of the instructor. Much of the homework consists of memorization of conversations which the students will then repeat during class. Work on grammar is done indirectly, for the most part; syntax is learned by the example of the phrases used and repeated...
...three days a week when the drill sessions do not meet, each drill group is combined with another and meets in a "lab" session, under the instruction of either a native or of a bilingual American teacher. Here the material covered in the drills is tamped down, often by means of group or individual repetition following playbacks on tape recording machines...
Finally, two hours a week are spent in "lectures" under senior faculty members. In these lectures, specific phonetic and grammatical difficulties are discussed, and students may ask questions about the structure of the language that might slow up the drill sessions or stump the native instructors...