Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...buds begin to form-only a few weeks after conception. Failing that, many dentists paint stronger fluoride solutions on children's teeth once or twice a year. Adults, with their fully developed teeth, have seemed beyond fluorides' help-destined to suffer the traditional "find the cavity, then drill and fill...
With the Navy work to encourage them, more and more civilian dentists seem likely to give their patients a mouthful of one chemical or another as an alternative to the dreaded drill. Dr. Finn Brudevold of Harvard's famed Forsyth Dental Center is concerned that the tin in the stannous fluoride solution commonly used for painting may interfere with the absorption of fluorine, and he is casting around for a better compound. Meanwhile, he says, it helps to cover the teeth, right after painting, with a protective coat of silicone grease. A colleague, Dr. Basil Richardson, believes that...
...Chinese Commissar: those responsible for educational work in the army should have studied the reasons for these examples of backward thinking and tried to reform them. To that end, the Red Chinese army has developed a series of programs that sound like some sort of ideological drill manual. The "Three Skills Movement" emphasizes "four grasps and one investigation"; there are "five togethernesses" to combat the "five excessives" (excessive reports, excessive documents, excessive meetings, excessive persons in office, excessive general appeal) and two remembrances, which can be applied in the search for "sweetness." Out of it all comes the most powerful...
That was a fortnight ago, and not a shot has yet been fired. For all his threats, Sekou Toure apparently has neither the intention nor the manpower to march anywhere. A few scraggly lads from his Revolutionary Youth Movement answered the call to arms and were sent upcountry to drill with brooms and wooden, guns, but Sekou has not dared to call up the 30,000 Guineans who once served in the French army-for fear that they would turn their weapons on him instead. What with West Africa's current epidemic of military coups (five since December), Sekou...
...universe." Parry finds only one major deficiency in the Harvard educational process--he thinks that Harvard students, particularly freshmen and sophomores in his course, History 174, "do not express themselves clearly or briefly enough." American secondary schools and colleges, he explained, do not give their students enough practice, drill, and criticism in expository writing...