Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little imagination to think up a reason to be deferred, e.g., as a student, a farmer, a scientist or a hardship case. Thousands of 17-and 18-year-olds exercise their alternative right of fulfilling military obligations with six months of active duty and 7½ years of weekly drill and summer camp in the reserves or National Guard...
...bamboo-and-nipa barracks, put to work building roads and a causeway to connect their island to the Red mainland. The Lappa commune's day starts at 5 a.m. when shrill whistles split the dawn. From 5 until 8, the men and women do calisthenics and military drill (with wooden rifles). After a 15-minute break for breakfast, the commune marches off in formation to work on the causeway. With the exception of two other 15-minute breaks for meals, work continues until midnight, under strings of light...
Crazy about Oil. Turner, long indulgently regarded by friends as daft about oil, got his first encouragement in 1957. He persuaded Starr Gas Co. of Midland, Texas to come in and drill by procuring leases for it on 3,000 acres. The first well struck oil, but it was mixed with so much salt water that Starr Co. despaired of getting the oil out of the petroleum-bearing strata. Disgusted, Starr sold the well, equipment and 80 acres of surrounding lease to Turner for $2,500. Undiscouraged, Turner decided to try his own method. He thought an extremely powerful pump...
...offering to give away leases, Turner stimulated others to drill. Last winter, off in the backwoods, two more wells came in. In April the Frank Beams farm on the main Louisville road, which Turner had leased and subleased, came in flowing thick black oil-and the boom was on. Farmer Ellis Hood, 45, who barely scratched out $2,400 a year from his 85 hilly acres, now rakes in $325 a day; ex-Marine Early Vaughn Dulworth, 36, who paid $200 for a part interest in the Beam lease, now gets back $2,000 a month (his mother...
There is, however, one impression I would like to correct: that the Cornell method gives the student a speaking knowledge of a language without any insight into the country's culture. In my elementary French class, the native drill instructors organized conversations around such subjects as French geography, French food and wine, French social life and mores, and that old standby, the French educational system...