Word: drills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...obvious source for skills would seem to be vocational high schools, but many a businessman hesitates to accept their graduates. President George Prezembel of Chicago's Midwest Machine Co. says: "It's all pretty sad. If you show them where to drill a hole, they can usually do that; but if their drill needs regrinding, they are stuck...
...fireside chat. But even if he does, he will still be careful of congressional blood pressure. Wrote Kennedy's friend and recent dinner host, New York Herald Tribman Rowland Evans: "It is the President's highest intention to maintain a cooperative working relationship with Congress . . . The drill will be compromise and accommodation, except in extreme circumstances...
...three speakers scoffed at the value of Castro's social reforms. While Castro has built more than 50 schools in the Havana area, all Cuban school are being forced to teach Communist propaganda, and all pupils over eight years old spend much of the day in military drill, the two students asserted...
Meaningless Drill. In all the loud, repetitive argument, politicians and public lost sight of the fact that evaluation of enemy missile strength is a complex exercise, and honest experts may produce wildly varied estimates. As Secretary McNamara has learned, counting intercontinental ballistic missiles to measure a missile gap is a meaningless drill in arithmetic. For a country like the U.S., dedicated to the proposition that it will not strike the first blow, the problem is to build a retaliatory force capable of surviving any sneak attack. U.S. strategy requires that the very existence of that force deter aggression. If there...
...command the complete loyalty of his singers. Music Education in America, written in 1926, assaulted many of the pet notions of the public and the musical professions: he ridiculed sight-reading and compulsory piano lessons for young children and derided the idea that music was best taught by drill, when drill presented discipline and not understanding...