Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Without Apology. Last spring, as a junior drill instructor, Matt McKeon led Recruit Platoon 71 on a night disciplinary march into the tidal waters of Ribbon Creek, where six boots were drowned (TIME, April 23). McKeon was charged with drinking in the barracks beforehand, with "oppression" of the platoon, and with culpable negligence in the six deaths. Maximum penalty for conviction on all counts: six years in prison and a dishonorable discharge...
...their first official public appearance since their April wedding, Monaco's Prince Rainier III and Hollywood's Princess Grace rode forth from their palace to a Fourth of July Mass in the local cathedral, later watched a drill put on by the Cadets of the Prince, a boys' cadre sponsored by Rainier's spiritual preceptor and matchmaker, Father Francis Tucker of Wilmington, Del. Meanwhile, palace prattlers reported that Bishop Gilles Barthe of Monaco had been so bold as to ask the Prince if Grace is perchance in a family way. Rainier's careful reply...
...concrete floor. When the hole is the width of a man's wrist, an umbrella is lowered through it and opened to catch the fragments of plaster as the gap is widened. Once in the store, the alarm is swiftly disconnected, the safe opened with an electric drill, and the loot removed. The entire operation simulates major surgery: there is the same mute reaching for instruments, the same intensity of purpose, the same growing strain as the operation approaches completion...
TURBINE OIL DRILL, similar to one touted by Russians, will come to U.S. after all. After Dresser Industries failed to get Commerce Department permission to import high-speed Russian turbodrill in exchange for U.S. technical information (TIME, May 28), Dresser signed agreement to manufacture and market almost identical French drill supposed to cut through rock ten times faster than rotary drills...
...fuming with impotent rage as an evil-mannered thug criticizes our carefully polished Army boots during drill...