Word: drilling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Drill and KP. At 11:30 the students hear the first of two daily lectures on Jewish history and culture; two more hours of karate classes are given in the afternoon. There is also occasional instruction in rappelling on the rocky camp escarpments. "The arms training may be to protect Jewish shopkeepers," explains Robert Glass, 15. Says another trainee, Larry Amsel, 19: "Scaling rocks may be preparation for scaling buildings in case of an outbreak of urban guerrilla warfare...
Then the Marine Silent Drill Team appears. Ten minutes of movements without commands, every exercise counted out; circles, squares, lines through lines and, finally, one long line of 24 Marines ready for inspection. Sergeant John Marley, the inspector, grabs a presented rifle. He whirls it, twists it, winds it round his shoulders, again and again with baton-twirler precision, and then flings it back. Next the double inspection-also known as "the mirror." Marley exchanges rifles with another Marine, and they repeat the routine, movements perfectly synchronized, rifles beating the air before being flipped back with the same seemingly casual...
PERHAPS the encounter with the naked masturbator reveals more than the obvious elements of black humor. Certainly, it was a little frightening; officially so frightening, in fact, that the cops had to be called in, a fire drill held and all of Barnard Hall evacuated at 2 a.m. so that every last room could be checked to make sure the poor naked dude wasn't lurking behind some bookcase. It was, also, unquestionably, a bit pathetic. Any man who has to get his kicks by displaying himself in front of a bunch of weary, bleary-eyed Radcliffe girls must first...
Dillon Field House was laundering over 4000 towels a day at the time, as the existing athletic program gave way to an intensified effort at civilian fitness and military drill. Simultaneously, actual civilian enrollment in the University shrank to less than 1000 as 5000 servicemen enrolled in a panoply of 13 different on-campus military programs. Even the CRIMSON shut up for a moment as its editors suspended publication in favor of printing a non-editorializing, twice-weekly-sheet unimaginatively titled the Harvard Service News...
Even as their own Mars vehicle raced toward its goal, the Soviets had another reason to be pleased. Six months after its landing, the eight-wheeled moon rover, Lunokhod I, was still continuing its lunar explorations, digging up soil samples with a conical drill and analyzing them with on-board instruments. It was also photographing the moonscape and scanning the heavens with an X-ray telescope that has already detected at least two sources of X-ray emissions in distant space. So overjoyed were the Russians by Lunokhod's performance that Pravda was moved to proletarian metaphor and compared...