Word: drilling
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Those who remained, 10,000 strong, gathered one more time on Tuesday night, when the winds at last had faded and the candles could burn, turning the entire drill field a glowing Hokie orange. When the commemoration was over, students stayed. Many just weren't ready to go home yet, or be by themselves...
...been a shooting on the campus and they were investigating it. Then we got on our cell phones and we kind of picked it up live as it came to us in news feeds." Others saw the police activity and were mystified. Dustin Lynch, a sophomore, was on the drill field. , an open meadow in the center of the Virginia Tech campus, in front of Norris at about 9:15 when he saw "an unbelievable amount of police force speeding around? from all different directions. Ambulance and police cars met at Norris Hall and surrounded it." Then, he says, "after...
...hundreds of students began filing down the steps of the War Memorial Chapel toward the drill field. Propped against a tree with a box of unlit candles at its base, the sign wavered in the wind. Clusters of two and three students stood together in silence. Slowly they began to line up to sign the board. ?You are in our prayers. We hurt for you. We will remember you forever,' signed one mourner in silver marker. "I'm still really in disbelief," says Stiltner. The shock of the day's shootings sank in, Hess said, as he carried the sign...
...which is exploited just as crudely, but oftener and more successfully." In Red, Hot and Blue, Hutton, "given a few comic situations and lively rhythms, appears to be a fissionable element exploding into energy and noise.... At her noisiest in her songs, she has the force of a pneumatic drill and the range of a fire siren...
...injury during a simple weightlifting drill two weeks before the start of the 2006 season changed Vance’s plans...