Word: drilling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...underneath her cap, and she describes herself as a "free spirit." But for Army 2nd Lieut. Stratton, succeeding in a man's world means being tough. As one of two female company executive training officers at Fort Dix, N.J., Stratton is in charge of 250 recruits and 18 drill sergeants of Charlie Company. The company is 95% male, and the recruits test Stratton. TIME Reporter-Researcher Barbara Dolan watched her in action and filed this report...
Bonnie Stratton's day begins at 6:30, when she joins the recruits and drill sergeants for one hour of morning exercises. "I love to run, dodge and jump," she says. "The males keep going because they see me doing it." Not long ago, she raced one of them. "We were neck and neck all the way," she recalls. "The other trainees rooted him on, but we finished together. It would have been a sorry mess if I hadn't matched...
...story brick building. "Female on the floor! Female on the floor!" a door guard loudly yells. Stratton enters so briskly that the men have time only to stand up. "What's this?" she demands, spotting a crumpled white towel tied to the end of a bed. A senior drill sergeant explains, "It's there so we know who to call...
...requiring all public high school students to demonstrate at least a ninth-grade level of proficiency in reading, writing and arithmetic before qualifying for a state-approved diploma. Then Senator Francis X. Herbert, who doubles as a high school English teacher, discovered that the senators could also use some drill in the fundamentals. The bill misspelled explicit as explict, minimum as minmum and remediation as remediaton. Conceded Sponsor Matthew Feldman: "Sure, it's embarrassing. I never read the bill for spelling." Said Herbert: "I give the senate a B-minus...
Thievery in various forms has become all too frequent over the past three years in the production fields and exploration areas of the South and Southwest that are the heart of what petroleum people call the U.S. Oil Patch. Spurred by the rise in oil prices, drilling activity has reached its highest level since the '50s, resulting in an acute shortage of pipe, drill bits and other oil-exploring and -producing equipment. Orders for derricks can take as much as 18 months to fill. Buyer impatience has spawned a burgeoning subindustry: a booming black market for stolen oil equipment...