Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heavily wooded island named Phuquoc in the Gulf of Siam live 25,000 trim, tautly disciplined Chinese soldiers, who drill every day with wooden guns and wait for something to happen. They are Nationalist China's "forgotten army," the survivors of a once-beaten mass which was pushed out of Yunnan Province in the final days of the Chinese Communist victory, and made its way through rough mountain country into French Indo-China. There, three years ago, they were disarmed and interned by the French...
...time for the raucous cries of a quarterback, the groans of heavily-laden gentlemen smashing each other on hot May afternoons, and the dull grind and drill that is spring practice. Athletes at least receive rewards in intercollegiate competition in season; if spring practice's adherents were logical, they might suggest that Harvard play football against Yale in spring as well as fall...
...Colleges should not "devote time and energy to elementary drill . . . The secondary schools, both public and private, could and should be responsible for the 'stage of discipline' in the fundamentals . . . The pendulum has swung too far in some quarters against the older idea (abused as it was) that some things are and must be mainly 'preparatory' to others in education...
...Investigation into the problems of man."Some 150 students daily come to the Hygiene building to get their temperatures taken or use one of its many clinics. The department's biggest plague is the number of students who feign illness to escape classes, exams, or R.O.T.C. drill...
APRIL-Extraction. In Chicago, Louise Springer confessed that she went for treatment to six dentists and, while they bent over her with the drill, picked their pockets for a total take...