Word: drilling
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Alabama's first chain gang in decades does not yet know the drill. On a lonely stretch of highway near the Alabama-Tennessee border, guards and bloodhounds look on as 320 convicts from the Limestone Correctional Facility try to negotiate the tricky business of walking in unison while shackled. Clad in immaculate white uniforms (emblazoned with the words chain gang lest anyone mistake them for pastry chefs), the men are equipped with a variety of tools and not quite sure whether they should be trimming, digging or picking up litter. One makes a desultory attempt to start up a work...
WITH EACH PASSING HOUR THE RESCUE forces swelled. The national-disaster plans designed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency fell into place so smoothly that the whole scene looked like a hideously realistic drill. Air Force and National Guard units and fbi counterterrorist teams and forensic specialists began to arrive in early afternoon. They joined 60 fire fighters from Phoenix, Arizona, summoned for their skill in extracting bodies from rubble. A planeload of 100 of the city's leading doctors heading for a medical retreat in Houston heard the news when they landed, got back on the next plane...
...windowless basement office, she heard the abrupt clanging of the building's fire alarm and a message on the public-address system to evacuate. This was not a drill. "People were running everywhere," says Critney. "I wondered if this was connected to the Oklahoma bombing. All I could think of was my two sons. What would they do without their mother?" After she and her co-workers rushed out of the building, they learned that the emergency was not a fire but a bomb threat. That was when it occurred to Critney that she might not be any safer outside...
These superstitions, passed down from Baker's Hungarian grandmother, are among the more unusual. But everyone knows the basic drill: Don't let a black cat cross your path. Don't open an umbrella indoors. Don't walk under a ladder. Breaking a mirror means seven years of bad luck...
...Sunday afternoon, and the fourth floor of the MAC is alive with athletic activity. Among the usual games of pickup basketball, some organized activity draws attention to the far court. The court is made up for volleyball, and 20 or more students are moving through a serving drill in a diligent and orderly fashion. One man stands in the middle of the scene shouting encouragement to the players. These are not the giants of the varsity volleyball team; they are the men and women of Dunster volleyball, an intramural machine fueled by a man with a vision...