Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...correct temperature for each dish according to the recipe, starting at 7:15 p.m. Alice then joins a televised discussion of Byzantine art (which she has studied by computer). Later she wanders into the computer room where Al ("Laddy") Jr. has just learned from his headset that his drill in Latin verb conjugation was "groovy...
...Ching-wen, the nation's No. 1 oilman, have spent the past three weeks in the U.S. at the invitation of Secretary Schlesinger. Before they flew home this week, the Chinese were given a red-carpet, coast-to-coast tour that took them to the most advanced U.S. drilling sites and laboratories. At every stop, the Chinese evidenced an insatiable curiosity, insisting upon inspecting the latest drill bits and prodding their hosts with endless, often highly technical questions...
...podium this young man is clearly an unceasing source of adrenaline for his singers and players. The sensuous darting about of the violins in the Act I bacchanal was all gossamer. The onstage trumpets during the entry march of the minnesingers in Act II were like a close-order drill in their precision. The delicate?and decidedly Mendelssohnian?woodwind passage accompanying Elisabeth's farewell was appropriately ethereal. The chorus, which has many roles in this opera (sirens, pilgrims, knights, ladies), sang like the virtuoso ensemble it is fast becoming under Levine and Chorus Master David Stivender...
...fashioned drilling is part of the daily fare at Westside Preparatory School, a one-room schoolhouse founded by Teacher Marva Collins, 37, as an alternative to the local inner-city schools. For 14 years Collins had taught in the neighborhood elementary school, where false fire alarms were set off a dozen times a day, teachers came to school stoned, and "all we were doing was creating more welfare recipients," she says. When she fought to keep her students with her for two years in a row in order to drill them thoroughly in spelling and grammar, other teachers tagged...
...ancient rivers, it lay hidden under a layer of limestone that distorted the echoes of shock waves by which geologists map underground formations. But a Chevron geologist's hunch, confirmed by tests using computer techniques, led prospectors to a swampy field on the Parlange plantation. When the drill bit spun into a zone of extreme pressure 21,345 ft. down, the gas and steam crushed the well casing, ripped out a blowout preventer at the top of the well and blew out of control...