Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...part-with the exception of some sentimental daguerreotypes of love and courtship-the program was superb entertainment. At its heart were the soaring jumps and the knee-wrenching kicks around which the rituals of all Russian folk companies are built. The Ukrainians, moreover, displayed a talent for close-order drill that should turn the Radio City Rockettes green, plus body control that enabled them to shift speeds with the smoothness of a car accelerating in fluid drive. Among the highlights: a dance competition in which the men, in soft boots and duffel-baggy pants, remained squatting while they whirled, pivoted...
...Sukarno went back to his military preparations. More than 25,000 Indonesian invasion troops are now in training, and even young girls in toreador pants and green forage caps drill in Djakarta parks. In Hong Kong and Tokyo, Indonesian agents are shopping for the landing craft that Sukarno needs to ferry troops across 1,600 miles of sea to New Guinea...
...Professor Stanislaus Fodorski. Ray Bolger is as ineptly endearing as sin at the Southern Baptist Institute of Technology, where he goes to teach engineering. To drill a little knowledge into the classroom cementheads he adopts football lingo. Chorus the enlightened mastodons of the monosyllable: "It's fun to think." Soon Fodorski gets a chance to apply his Archimedean magic to the great gridironic decisions of educational life, like defeating S.B.I.T.'s football rival. Texas Mohammedan. Fodorski's human pinwheel and pyramidal enemy line-scaling plays make him "All-American coach of the year" and. together with...
...best goal of the game was Tom Heintzman's drill at 3:22 of the first period. In this season's play it rates second only to Kinasewich's spectacular solo tally against Army when he took the puck up the entire rink (past four cadets) and faked out the goalie. That one won him a standing ovation...
...wave of constant attack by his team, Gerry Jorgenson back handed in the first Crimson goal at 15:12 on a rebound of a hard drill of linemate Tim Taylor. After that the Crimson fans knew their team was not going to let the game just slip away...