Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Drill a Little Deeper. Understandably eager for oil, little Jordan celebrated the spudding in of Mecom's first well in the olive groves and rolling hills north of Hebron. Mecom was banqueted by King Hussein, in turn entertained Jordanian officials with a dinner party at the new Jerusalem Intercontinental Hotel on the Mount of Olives. The jaunty young King spilled oil ceremonially over the rig, and a dozen lambs were slaughtered and sent to the poor in a good-luck ritual...
...paintings is to hear them. They screech and honk with the aggressive dissonance of city traffic. They have the staccato beat of a pneumatic drill. The strident reds, blues, and yellows blare with neon. And the stray words that seem squiggled from a toothpaste tube onto his paintings are like the hip, harsh expletives that slum kids spew into the summer air. Davis had violence without anger, gaiety without abandon, and his paintings swing and jump with such durable joy that it is as if he had dipped his brush in some eternal fountain of youth...
...calls "visual dictation," tapping the charts with a pointer, Dr. Gattegno lets students discover with delight that strings of sounds make words, then whole sentences, including such swinging examples as "Pat met on a mat a man as fat as Tim." The decipherability of language thus established, the drill moves on to tougher orthography: weigh, height, eye, diaphragm, for example...
Tommy Armour, Gene Sarazen, Alex Morrisson-almost every oldtimer still hale enough to handle a club or a typewriter gets into the act. Gary Middlecoff, the dentist from Memphis, continues to drill out advice, though he stands farther than Palmer from the actual practice of journalism. His ghostwriter, Reporter Thomas E. Michael of the Memphis Commercial Appeal, last consulted the dentist nine years ago. "I'm very much by myself," says Michael, who has since managed six Middlecoff bylines a week-for steadily dwindling readership. Most golf columns lose readers at about the same rate that their custodians lose...
...English virtues. As a result of that determination, his upbringing was appalling. He was not allowed to mix or play with other boys. He was given six hours of instruction by several private instructors six days a week, followed by an hour of calisthenics under the eye of a drill sergeant. To ensure that nothing went wrong, his principal tutor arranged that "Her Majesty and His Royal Highness Prince Albert have, laid before them at the end of every day, a report on the conduct of the Princes and their employment from hour to hour...