Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard Policy Committee, secretary; Senior Associate; Crimson Key, athletics committee chairman; freshman crew; Harvard Yacht Club; N.R.O.T.C., Company Commander, drill team, Naval Science Forum, Sailing Club, Taffrail Club and Midshipman Activities Council; Kirkland House Social Committee; Dorm Crew...
Next day, a military parade to celebrate the overthrow of Ngo Dinh Diem went off without a missed beat, its resplendent display watched by Saigonese who lined the streets around Unity Square. First came a crack Vietnamese drill team, and overhead a flyby of jets, transports and helicopters. Then a combined honor guard of Thais, South Koreans, Nationalist Chinese, Filipinos, New Zealanders, Australians and Americans marched past, followed by combat troops and a 56-piece Korean army band. Finally the heavy equipment rolled out, from clanking M41 tanks to giant earth movers...
...representative and a caricature of the noble American rustic. As Gomer, a leatherneck Pfc, he wears a gee-whiz expression, spouts homilies out of a lopsided mouth and lopes around uncertainly like a plowboy stepping through a field of cow dung. He is a walking disaster area. When his drill sergeant chastises him for "taking the taxpayer's money without putting in a day's work," the hapless recruit returns part of his paycheck-and fouls up the bookkeeping system of the entire Marine Corps. Yet in the end, Gomer's goodness always wins...
Take a look at Al Vellucci. He grins as a grade school drill team from East Cambridge comes to have its picture taken with the City Council. Veteran observers ask him if the children's parents are good for 50 or 60 "number ones." Al's smile broadens into an angelic beam--it's all part of the game of Cambridge politics...
...classroom at Chicago's Reading Research Foundation, an attractive blonde teacher brusquely ordered her pupils to "move one-quarter turn." When seven-year-old Kim Helton failed to obey, the teacher bore down on the girl with all the authority of a Marine drill sergeant. "Well, do it!" she yelled. "Move! Move! Move!" Slowly, and blinking back the tears, Kim made the turn. At another class, a young Negro boy began to cry when his teacher rasped out a command to "Think! Wake Up!" Glaring, the teacher snapped back: "Knock it off, Bobby." The sniffling stopped...