Word: drilling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...signal drill, which saw Bill Barnes, MacKinney, Forte, and jack Morgan all alternating on the first team, lasted far into the evening, as three teams ran through plays on the darkening field...
...Signal Drill lineup--"B" Team: le MacKinney, It Mallett, lg Grunig, e Ayres, rg Whitehill, rt Stannard, re Farley, bb Goldthwaite and Lyman, lh Pirnie and summers, rh Lyle, fb Johnson...
...carted a 32-ton block of Tennessee marble onto the lawn in front of West Hartford's prim Town Hall. There, stripped to the waist, Sculptor Ziolkowski hacked and chiseled. He turned night into day with glaring floodlights, rang West Hartford's rural welkin with an electric drill. When the West Hartford clergy protested his working on the Sabbath, bushy-headed Ziolkowski snorted: "There seems to be no objection to golfing, tennis, motoring and sports in general on the Sabbath, so why the rumpus over the creation of a masterpiece of art?" As months passed, Sculptor Ziolkowski...
Portland's rodeo fans have witnessed many an unscheduled thriller in their arena but none to equal last week's performance of San Francisco's dude riders. In "threading the needle" (forming and maintaining a figure eight at full gallop), daring climax of their 20-horse drill, one rider misjudged his horse's pace. Men, horses and white sombreros went sprawling. One rider dropped his false teeth. When the horsemen picked themselves up, one hobbled off on a sprained ankle, another required three stitches in his gashed leg, a third had to have his cracked wrist...
...purely military affairs that this problem exists. In drill and on manoeuvers, as in actual warfare, there must be some one man who is responsible for giving the word to march, to charge, or to fire. There is no question but what the wisest, the best trained, and the most experienced soldier in a squad, a company, or a division has to have the absolute authority of a dictator...