Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rhythm & Drill. When little Mary MacIsaac first arrived, she had so little coordination that she could scarcely control her hands and feet. She was given breathing exercises to build up her respiration, massages and tiny electric shocks to relax her limbs. She listened to nursery tunes for hours each day, gradually learned to keep time with her fingers and to twirl her hands to the rhythm of Hickory, Dickory, Dock. As her ability to coordinate her body movements increased, she began to pronounce her first words. After that came years of phonetic drill and tongue exercises, but by the time...
...wonder that the white citizens of Johannesburg were jittery. A man might ignore the 93° heat and the potentially explosive bus boycott that Johannesburg Negroes had organized in protest against a fare rise. No one, however, could ignore the tension which emanated from the city drill hall, where 156 South Africans last week faced a court on charges of high treason-a trial which the London Economist likened to Hitler's notorious Reichstag fire trial...
...Testing the Breeze. As the court resumed its hearings, police clubs again thwacked on Negro bodies outside the drill hall, but this time the police scrupulously refrained from using their guns. Inside the sweltering courtroom, fatherly-looking Magistrate Frederick Wessel graciously agreed to let the defendants remove their jackets...
...Such gestures could not disguise the true nature of what was going on inside the drill hall. The defense was determined to put the Strydom regime itself on trial. "The defense." declared Attorney Victor Berrange. "will seek to show that these prosecutions . . . are for the purpose of testing the political breeze to determine how far the originators [of the trial] can go in their attempts to stifle free speech, criticism of government policies and all that the accused believe is implicit in their definition of the often misused word 'democracy.' ... A battle of ideas has indeed been started...
Direct U.S. private investments in Latin America-the dollars that build factories, dig mines, plant crops or drill for petroleum-rose by a record-smashing $500 million in 1956. Last week Washington's statisticians, tentatively casting up sums for the year, estimated the total investment to date at $7 billion-probably enough to keep Latin America the area most favored by U.S. investors.* Adding in U.S. Government loans of more than $1 billion and indirect private investments, e.g., bank loans, stocks and bonds, the experts put the grand total of all U.S. funds invested in Latin America...