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Nicklaus, who was a drill master during the '89 football season and played the trombone, recalls his band years fondly...

Author: By Benjamin D. Grizzle, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Band Celebrates 80 Years with Weekend of Festivities | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

...last drill of the last practice before the exam break," Springer said. "I just couldn't imagine it happening like that...

Author: By Timothy Jackson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Springer Back Between the Pipes | 10/27/1999 | See Source »

...this very day, phone technicians are installing equipment that will make it easier to trace calls coming in to Webster High. Earlier in the day, Voss asked the school's maintenance chief, Frank Schaffer, to post two employees on the roof whenever the school has a crisis evacuation or drill. "I'm worried about that situation in Jonesboro, where the kids with guns shot the other kids as they were leaving the building for a fire drill," she said. "It would be good to have someone on the roof to make sure it's safe to leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tuesday: 12:45 P.M. Faculty Meeting | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

First day back after Sunday's disgusting defeat. I was back in stroke, although I guessed from the boat's lineup that it was going to be a technique row--skill and drill--without much pressure. Cool evening; the sun was setting as we docked and the coxswain was worried about being out on the Charles without a light on the boat. We did a lot of 6s work, some pause drills, slap drills. Then some 2 to 3 minute pieces at 2/3 to full pressure. The shoes in the boat were placed too high and we were rushing into...

Author: By Jesse C. Nussbaum, | Title: A Rower's Diary | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

...better off exercising their free choice of careers, and thus possibly to have become the nation's first African-American sister actuaries. But I'd bet that if asked how they are taking to their oppressive, regimented, premolded lives, they would both grin the way they do when they drill a backhand into the baseline corner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Proudest Papa | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

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