Word: drilling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week saw the successful completion of a revolution in the U. S. Army. The U. S. as a whole was not aware of it, but the Army was. To all intents, it was a new Army - new in dress, drill, organization, fighting methods, and newest of all in its peacetime fighting strength...
...young man lay drowsing on the operating table, numbed by morphine and a local anesthetic. Dimly, without pain, he felt the surgeon's electric drill cut through the bony tissue of his deafened ear. Then "a little pinch," and suddenly a great roar, like the waves of the sea. It was the muttered conversation of doctor and nurses, the first sounds the young man had heard in 16 years. For two weeks he lay in the hospital, gradually accustoming himself to the thunder of swinging doors, the drums and tramplings of tiptoeing nurses...
...Harvard naval battalion will be reviewed in infantry drill, and also on knowledge of navigation, seamanship, gunnery, signals, and elementary fleet tactics...
Like a cosmic dentist's drill suddenly withdrawn, the quake stopped. Turks scrambled to their still-trembling feet. Some returned to what was left of their homes to stare or scrabble for loved ones. Those who remembered the repetitious earthquake of April 1938 stayed in the fields. Others prostrated themselves.before their prostrate mosques, calling on Allah. Hardly had they thanked their God for sparing them when a new shock came. Between two and five that morning the earth quaked four terrible times. When it was all over...
Last night the squad went through a tough serimmage with the North-eastern Huskies, the one team which the Crimson has defeated, and this afternoon Fesler will put them through another short, drill to close a strenuous four days of practice...