Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...galas with foreign dignitaries and fields charity requests. "I am not the Salvation Army," bellows Maxwell, as he signs checks for needy causes. But Jay's real challenge is simply to keep the emperor's attention. After the first few letters, Maxwell's mind ticks elsewhere. He can drill to the core of any issue, but his attention span is that of a gnat...
...Hayes, Holtz often joins huddles during scrimmages and scrutinizes backfielders like a Customs inspector. The idea, he says, is "to make practice worse than the game." The 5-ft. 10-in., 152-lb. coach once barreled onto the field and sacked quarterback Rice for goofing off during a passing drill. During competition, Holtz calls every offensive play from the sidelines...
...confident, and it didn't happen," he conceded. On the morning of the second debate, Ailes got a call at 6:45 from Bush saying that he wanted to see him at 8. When Ailes arrived, Bush was already going over his briefing papers. Ailes gave him a "pepper" drill, rapid-fire questions and answers to test Bush's reflexes and the shape of his answers...
...patch is relatively better able to withstand another round of low oil prices. The '86 energy rout forced many marginal producers to pack up their drill rigs for good. The firms that remain in the industry are better capitalized and more efficient. Even so, many oil-patch banks and real estate investors, still reeling from the last slump, may be unable to survive another...
...recalling the night he watched an intrepid Brit scale the facade of a hotel in Freeport, the Bahamas, to bang on Howard Hughes' window. "That is the closest anyone ever came ((to Hughes))," he claims proudly. Ace Tab Photog Jimmy Leggett, a wiry Scot, remembers a "scheme to drill a hole down into Hughes' coffin to get a picture of his face." Another plot, in the '60s, involved renting a submarine to surprise Jackie Kennedy and little Caroline yachting in the Mediterranean. Leggett admits with a wink, "Neither plan made it past the second glass of ale." Balfour once sent...