Word: drilling
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...introduced into American schools in the 1960s, they were used the way filmstrips and learning machines had been: to present lessons that progressed $ at a pace consistent with a student's ability. Even today a lively market exists for programs that prepare students for the Scholastic Aptitude Tests or drill them on the multiplication table. But software manufacturers have been less successful in attempts to transfer textbooks onto floppy disks. Texts, after all, usually cost less than $25 and can be used year after year. Most computerized education programs, by contrast, cost $50 to $100 and provide, at best, only...
...court order allowing her to join the team first made the wide receiver feel "like I was under a lot of pressure from people who said I wouldn't survive the first day of practice." But Balsley, who was loudly cheered by her male teammates for surviving a "thud drill" that momentarily knocked the wind out of her, now vows with feminine fervor: "I'm going to stick with it. Unless I get hurt...
Take a dentist's drill, a meat grinder . . . Take lights and deform them as brutally as you can. Make locomotives crash into one another . . . Explode steam boilers to make railroad mist. Take petticoats and the like, shoes and false hair, also ice skates...
Ultimately, the dentist's principal instrument of agony, the drill, may be used less often because of a substance called Caridex 100, developed at Tufts University in Medford, Mass. Caridex, which is gradually being introduced around the country, is an amino-acid solution that dissolves tooth decay, leaving behind a clean, sturdy area that can be filled with little or no drilling. However, the method is not suitable for all cavities...
...saved by a flak jacket from anything worse than a bad bruise. By midmorning the guns had fallen all but silent. By early afternoon every plan, gambit and technique tried by the police had failed. They had attempted to bash in the front door. They tried to drill 2-in. holes through the exterior walls in hopes of pumping in tear gas, but were driven away by gunfire from inside the Move house. They tried to break through to the cellar from an adjacent house, but were again turned back by bullets. The fire department had poured tons of water...