Word: drilling
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...paid Dino to do when he wasn't on the links. His old partner Jerry Lewis said that in preparing for their '50s TV show, "we had this great arrangement: he played golf and I worked." There, and in movies, and on the long-running Dean Martin Show, the drill was the same. He would show up when the camera had to roll. Rehearsal was for wimps. To practice meant you cared. And, as director Vincente Minnelli said, "Dean would rather die than have you believe he cared...
Today, however, Huggins' drill is silent. He closed his clinic in September to devote his energy to writing another book, he says. But there may have been other, more pressing reasons. Three weeks ago, a civil jury found Huggins and an associate liable in a negligence suit brought by a woman who came in to have her fillings removed and ended up having five teeth extracted. Another lawsuit alleges that the Huggins Center hastened the death of an elderly couple; the wife stopped going to her oncologist for cancer treatments after going to the center. At a hearing that began...
Shannon Faulkner, who fought for more than two years to become the first female "knob" at the Citadel, dropped out of the military college after missing all of the school's "hell week" indoctrination. Faulkner became ill following a drill in 100-degree weather and spent most of the week in the campus infirmary. Her fellow cadets greeted the news of Faulkner's departure with cheers and jeers...
There is something disturbingly American about these irregular cadres who drill endlessly in preparation for Washington's attempt to suppress our liberty...
...70th recalls that, he was employed for a time devising "lanes training," a set of simple, pre-scripted troop exercises. The assignment misfired. "Koernke came up with these wildly ambitious, grandiose scenarios," says the officer. "Nobody bought them." Every year the reservists gathered for two weeks of concerted drill, and the G-2s were allowed to train briefly with active-duty troops. Koernke returned with stories of espionage derring-do that were so rococo they became the talk of his contemporaries. Says one today: "He was in this dream world. You would sit and have a drink and say, 'Guess...