Word: drilling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three services' ROTCs required at least four ROTC half-courses, some form of drill, and a number of regular Faculty courses to be approved by the commanding officer of each student's ROTC unit. Each service provided allowances to help cover books and required uniforms...
That is the traditional lament of the woman athlete trained from childhood to win games rather than beaux. In Evert's case, the drill started so early that she could barely hold a racket. Her father, Jimmy Evert, a onetime touring tournament player, is the tennis pro at the Holiday Park Courts in Fort Lauderdale. "One day when I was six," Chrissie recalls, "my dad took me to a park. He put a racket in my hand and threw balls to me. I missed them all. We did this every day. After a few weeks I started hitting...
...years, Sybil remained oblivious of their existence; she knew only that she blacked out and suffered terrible amnesiac lapses. Once, in her fifth-grade classroom, she came back to herself in the midst of an arithmetic drill and thought she should be in the third grade...
...tell the players without a scorecard in Virginia these days. Party labels, loyalties and leaders are scrambled beyond the worst imaginings of old Harry F. Byrd Sr., who for much of his life ran Virginia politics like a military drill...
Much of this drift can be laid to the relative disarray in the White House, which was formerly run with the highhanded authoritarianism of a Prussian drill field by the President's two top aides, H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman...