Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Doing a preseason drill, Brian fell the wrong way and fractured a bone in the wrist of his passing hand...
...healthy, the Cowboys had galloped to six straight victories and an undisputed lead in the N.F.L. Until the Dallas game, the world champion Packers had managed only a 2-3-1 record-largely because of a freak injury to their own field general. While lobbing passes in a warmup drill before the Los Angeles Rams game three weeks ago, Starr unaccountably pulled the biceps muscle in his throwing arm, watched from the sidelines as the Rams toppled his teammates 16-14. Against Detroit a week later, Starr entered the game for one play, painfully flipped a 3-yd. touchdown pass...
...aisles, their feet thumping in military double time. They compulsively mime cleaning the backs of orchestra seats. There is a cross fire of phrases as the actors recite everything printed on a dollar bill. The caustic commentary on money and the military builds to an insane close-order drill on stage. In the cacophonous din, a thundering common shout of "YES, SIR!" seems to blast out the house lights...
...dark rites of the Hitler Jugend, marked the end of a busy season for the Society for Sport and Technology (Gesellschaft f$#252;r Sport und Technik). All summer long, G.S.T.'s 600,000 East German boys and girls between 14 and 18 had been learning drill and marksmanship, parachuting and radio operating...
...impractical art to socially useful architecture, and it represented a departure from the decadent realism of the Czarist past. With mixed feeling, Berlin's Dadaist Raoul Hausmann contrived a photomontage "portrait" of Tatlin in which his brain is a mass of machinery topped by a dentist's drill...