Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conditioned coliseum in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico as the Classics, Harvard's self-styled "vagabonding basketeers" took to the floor, undaunted by the murmur of a capacity crowd and the steady woosh emanating from the opposite end of the court as the Puerto Rican national team ran through a dunking drill...
Harrison tried to employ a drill in practice that Indiana coach Bobby Knight, a notorious disciplinarian, has used on his Hoosiers. The team breaks up into two lines at opposite ends of the court, and on the coach's signal, the first man in each line has to dive to the floor to pick up a loose ball. The drill was quickly abandoned in the IAB when players complained of getting hurt...
...visits restored Pound's spirits-and his obnoxiousness. He flaunted a succession of new female acquaintances in the face of his devoted wife, wrote contemptuous letters to eminent friends and spewed more antiSemitism. But he also completed two large new regions of his epic Section: Rock-Drill de los Cantares (1955) and Thrones de los Cantares...
...surprisingly, the drill before a panel of judges can be excruciatingly tense. Take the demands of the paragraph loop, for instance. The maneuver begins with the competitor pushing off, moving backward on the outside edge of the right skate. In that position, moving slowly, the skater traces half a circle leading into a loop, gliding out to complete a full circle. He then changes to the inside blade edge and carves a second circle and loop...
...classroom for years. I felt presumptuous; these were adult lives I was confronting, not data, and their faces told me more than I wanted to know as glimmers of interest struggled across features usually stolid, blown out, confused, or pugnacious because of the Blackboard, the Teacher, the Drill Sargeant, the Foreman. For me, that night the niceties of clinical description blurred into the broad strokes of oppression...