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...It’s a little bit disappointing,” LaFountaine said. “But it’s not that big of a deal, just a non-contact drill designed to be safe...
Hyperbole? Drive through the desolate towns around Picher, Okla., and you might think differently. This is eco-assault on an epic scale. The prairie here in the northeast corner of the state is punctured with 480 open mine shafts and 30,000 drill holes. Little League fields have been built over an immense underground cavity that could collapse at any time. Acid mine waste flushes into drinking wells. When the water rises in Tar Creek, which runs through the site, a neon-orange scum oozes onto the roadside. Wild onions, a regional delicacy tossed into scrambled eggs, are saturated with...
...Drills are held weekly at the armory on Irvington street, Boston, except in August and September, and instruction is given in infantry as well as in the artillery tactics, the manual of arms, the use of the magazine rifle and revolver, and the setting-up drill as practiced in the regular army. During the spring summer and fall there are facilities for target shooting at the range with small arms...
...wouldn’t call her a drill sergeant, I’d call her a motivator,” Schroyer said. “I think Kat is great at getting our team fired up. We’ll be sitting in there, maybe this past weekend, tied game with Brown, we’re trying to figure out what we need to work on. And Kat just kind of sparks us and is like, ‘hey, we know how to play hockey.’ She’ll just pump people...
...appear to have come from the cast members’ closets (instead of a lion skin, Hercules makes do with a fake leopard skin jacket). The staging has likewise been updated; Dionysus brandishes a copy of Let’s Go Hell, the infernal judge Aeacus is an Army drill sergeant, and the contest between Aeschylus and Euripides is presented as a game show. While bizarre, these settings make good sense; the Chorus political moralizing is far more palatable when presented as part of a protest by flower children, and it only makes sense that the ferrier to the land...