Word: drilling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outburst touched off a barrage of letters to the London Times. Pudgy, pompous Lord Brabazon wrote that he thought he saw a painting of what seemed to be broken iron castings. Matisse had titled it A Recumbent Woman. (Huffed Lord Brabazon, "We shall soon be told that a multiple drill has sex appeal.") Two letter writers thought Picasso's pictures should be kept from children. Another critic was not so worried. He reported overhearing a six-year-old, who had intently studied a swollen, mysterious Picasso abstraction, comment: "Why, there's a hippopotamus...
...three weeks to whip the Navy team into shape. Plans for defense and kick-off drill on the day before the game were frustrated when the players arrived to practice on the Shanghai race course. The reason: the city government was shooting six criminals on the field...
...with the training program, Harry Truman proposed comparatively small regular forces, with a greatly strengthened National Guard and organized reserves for the Army, Navy and Marine Corps. And he proposed that the armed services should improve their training standards-thus anticipating the arguments of those who consider close-order drill poor insurance against atomic-age aggression...
Resuming its power form, for the first time in over three years, the Harvard University Band will appear at the Navy Sub Base game on Saturday, manager and leader David Schine '49, announced yesterday. The band will march and drill to form letters...
...Japan's few surviving liberal lead ers. Said he: "I will do my best to lead the nation back to self-respect. . . ." His Cabinet included no outright warmakers, no great statesmen of any kind. One of his Government's first measures: abolition of bayonet and jujitsu drill...