Word: drilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...largest (40,000 seats). Orator Hitler was to speak to 10,000 sitters and 20,000 standees in Luitpold Hall. Also on schedule was the annual early morning service for the Party dead in the Luitpold Arena, a Youth Rally in the Old Stadium. A Labor Service drill of 45,000. a search-lit demonstration of 110,000 political leaders and all-day war games would wear down the grass of the Zeppelin Meadow. Hitler writes but a henchman reads the Fuhrer's annual opening Proclamation at Nürnberg. Millions of Europeans hoped he would end the suspense...
...monkeys, foxes, swans and lions in the Budapest Zoo, told reporters how he once gave the eye to a pack of 18 hungry wolves. "I simply got the leader under control," he said, "and then waved the pack back just as if they were soldiers at a drill...
When a crowd of passengers on a burning ship jumps overboard, when schoolboys go calmly through a fire drill, when four clubmen stage a drinking spree, when a mob of strikers overturns police cars, social psychologists call it collective behavior. Its special attribute is that the behavior of one individual affects, and is affected by, the behavior of others. It is almost impossible for human beings to come within shouting distance of one another without manifesting collective behavior...
...Geologists are examining cores from thousands of feet below the surface; radio seismograph crews are sounding in Cuba's hills. Designed to bolster the island's limited revenues, the new petroleum law passed by the legislature all but forces activity on concessions by requiring each concessionaire to drill within five years at least one well to 4,000 feet unless oil is struck at lesser depth; the alternative to such exploitation is Government confiscation...
...Neosho, Mo., 50-year-old Virginia Rees told Dr. C. F. Duncan, D.D.S., that she had never had a toothache in her life, that his most excruciating drill left her indifferent. Dr. Duncan took X-rays of her jaw, dropped his when he discovered that not one of her 32 teeth had a root-canal or nerve of any kind...