Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...five of the eight Army bases that are home to basic trainees. Typically in such cases, a recruit was given a weekend pass, allowed to get away with some minor infraction, or awarded a passing grade on a test. In exchange, he had to pay cash to his drill instructor or some other noncom, or perform a service such as washing or waxing a sergeant's car. The bribes were slyly referred to as "birthday gifts...
...toxin. After receiving the toxin orally or by pinprick, a victim first feels a tingling sensation in the fingers and lips, then dies within ten seconds of painless paralysis. Indeed, according to Colby, U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers carried the toxin-contained in the grooves of a tiny drill bit that was concealed in a silver dollar -when he was shot down over Russia in 1960, but chose...
...life. The really scary, chilling thing about this voice is its profound bitterness--a sort of challenge to all comers that commands sympathy at the same time that it defies it, that attracts as it repels, that bores directly at some common core of human experience with a drill of inhuman strength...
...injured since February. Not all the violence has been between the warring religious camps. To enforce discipline within their ranks, paramilitary organizations of both sides have "kneecapped" some 90 men -shooting them through the knee or, in one recent ghastly episode, by subjecting them to a "Black & Decker drill...
Trying to outcoach the late Vince Lombardi, the high school football coach drove his young players unmercifully, seemingly oblivious of the temperature that a hot, late-August sun had pushed over the 90° mark. Finally, he ordered them to top off their preseason drill with a quick run around the field. Halfway through the run, one of the players collapsed, and the doctor who examined him quickly discovered why. The youngster's body was not wet with perspiration but hot and dry. He had suffered heat stroke, and only by rapidly cooling his overheated body with cold towels...