Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...system may be changing. Convinced that men can be trained to fight for positive motivation rather than fear. Army brass at Fort Ord, Calif., are experimenting with a basic reform in basic training that could greatly change the armed forces and mark the end of the Sergeant Snorkel drill instructor...
...beaver shooting," which in his words "can be anything from peering over the top of the dugout to look up dresses to hanging from the fire escape on the 20th floor of some hotel to look into a window. I've seen guys chin themselves on transoms, drill holes in doors, even shove mirrors under a door." When Bouton was with the Yankees, he recalls how Mickey Mantle used to lead hunting parties to the roof of the Shoreham Hotel in Washington, B.C. "One of the first big thrills I had with the Yankees," he reports, "was joining about...
...other day, at a regular monthly drill, a vote was taken of the number of men in one unit who felt that ammunition should not be issued for riot duty in Cambridge. Out of over one hundred and twenty-five men, two hands were raised. From the back of the room, one sergeant called out in reference to my raised hand, "We have an SDSer back here." No one laughed. The demonstrators used violence and had guns, the officers believed, and so the Guardsmen should not be deprived of their weapons...
...second new experiment, using a battery-powered drill, Astronaut Haise will plant a pair of thermal probes into the lunar soil. These detectors will test the thermal conductivity of the rock and determine the rate at which heat flows from the moon's interior-perhaps helping to settle the old hot-v.-cold moon arguments...
...explorers from nine different countries man an odd armada that ranges the long shoreline of Indonesia. Their expanding expeditions have already spent well over $100 million, and the cost rises steadily. The gamble, they figure, is worth the price. So the big rigs throb day and night as crewmen drill deep into the continental shelf. They are all racing to tap the same treasure-an undersea source of oil that is far from the dangerous uncertainties of the Middle East and close to the great Japanese market. To make it even more attractive, the oil is "sweet crude," relatively free...