Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the flag bridge they saw the modern Navy put on an impressive, well-run drill. The demonstrations ranged from over-the-shoulder simulated A-bomb tosses to napalm drops, from missile launching to night take-offs and landings. One ensign had trouble with his approaches, was waved away three times before making it on the fourth try. Said the President: "Bet the poor kid was crying his eyes out." The Navy was fairly obvious about its yen to get into the strategic bombing business with, but after, the Air Force's Strategic Air Command. In one notable performance...
What sparked it all was a growing oilfield (3,000 bbl. a day from twelve wells) on the 20th Century-Fox movie lot adjoining Beverly Hills. Trying to recoup from TV competition, the moviemen leased to oilmen who got permission to drill in 1953. Fox argued that the 280-acre lot was already zoned for manufacturing, and what was the difference between an oil derrick erected for a movie or one to drill? Furthermore, modern drilling avoids the noise and mess that blighted oil-happy Los Angeles in the '20s and brought a ban on drilling...
Completing his first White House landing last week, Barrett lifted again, headed off to National Airport for more practice. Next month man and machine will return to the White House for the "Operation Alert" civil-defense drill. This flight will be the payoff: the first U.S. President to ride a helicopter will climb aboard to be whisked away from simulated danger- accompanied by a second copter carrying two Secret Servicemen...
...campus-a small, slight man with precise, courtly manners who was almost always smoking a pipe and wearing a Tyrolean hat. Students soon got used to meeting him out for a solitary walk as late as 2 a.m., or having him show up unannounced to watch an R.O.T.C. drill or a track meet. By last week, as he completed his four-month stay as writer-in-residence, famed Novelist William Faulkner seemed as much a fixture at the University of Virginia as the maples that line the campus...
...young recruits maneuvering about Fairmount Park in Philadelphia one day during World War I, the drill seemed strictly routine. But suddenly their first lieutenant began giving some very non-routine orders. Before they knew what was up, he had marched them across the green and straight into the art museum. There he proceeded to give them a learned lecture on the museum's paintings. "I thought it would do them good," the lieutenant explained latef. "And besides, they were my first captive audience...