Word: drilling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...join the Battalion will get a training that will prepare them for possible further service. They will drill every Monday evening and will stand ready for brief mobilizations on the call of the Governor. Thursday drill is voluntary. The instruction will include rifle range practice, bayonet practice, and riot formation drills...
...there was some unnecessary repetition between courses, such as Ec. 45a on Business Cycles and Ec. 41 on Money, Banking and Commercial Crises. Members gave their hearty approval to the staff of teachers, most of whom are deeply absorbed in economics and are active in research. Consequently, the stagnant drill-master is a rare specimen in the Economics Department. Many members hope that Schumpeter can find time for an undergraduate course next year...
...that all men are washed before mess call and that they are shaved before drill call...
They had learned other things besides drill, spit and polish. Squatting, lying and kneeling on the ground while the wind bit through their padded range jackets, they had had a bellyful of instruction in the Marines' dearest specialty-marksmanship. Even the sergeants had had to admit (in private) that there they had done pretty well-90% of them had qualified on the pistol and automatic rifle ranges, 75% with the Springfield. Betweentimes, swathed in coveralls, they had hiked, practiced open-order fighting, strung barbed wire. In the late afternoons, after 45 minutes of football, baseball or boxing, they...
...said to freeze the other Sitwells into stoney stares of amusement. All three delight in caressing authors and critics they do not like with their individual or corporate paws. Edith once called a poem of John Masefield's "dead mutton" and Poet Cecil Day Lewis "an electric drill with the electricity left out." She and Osbert presented prizes to "the authors most representative of the tedious literature of the age." Novelist Henry Williamson got a stuffed fish; Biographer Harold Nicolson two stuffed kittens; the literary editor of the London Spectator 27 moth balls. Edith, by her own account...