Word: drilling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second disaster to strike NASA's pioneering space program in 56 manned space missions. In January 1967, astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee burned to death while preparing for an Apollo flight when a fire destroyed their capsule during a training drill...
Rather than hacking the ice cream and M&M's to pieces, Thomas Sweet uses a special machine, resembling a somewhat perverse giant drill to blend evenly the flavoring into the ice cream. The amazing thing is, it really works...
...third day there, we were working a defensive drill where I was playing defense and drivers were trying to get open on me to score," Scherrer explained. "When Wade and I were teamed up, we sort of got tangled...
...eagerly it was hard to tell if the incitement preceded the response. Farrakhan's male guards, who sat lined up in chairs facing forward on the stage, were trained to leap to attention whenever the audience went wild, as if creating a sudden row of exclamation points. The drill suggested that the audience must have been bursting to express its hatred all along. It seemed so. Farrakhan may be a second-rate demagogue, but he has some first-rate hate to play with...
...know that Judith Singer (Susan Sarandon) is not only a likable woman but a good one. She is very nearly the only lady in her Long Island suburb who has resisted the oleaginous charms of Dr. Bruce Fleckstein, a periodontist whose hands tend to roam from his drill and who has a taste for taking pictures of his female patients that reveal more than the condition of their root canals. Judith even has the sweetly articulated moral fiber to resist the more attractive proposals of the nice police detective (Raul Julia) who is investigating Dr. Bruce's entirely justifiable homicide...