Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...high school. "Most of them like to study people. I am not so interested in people as I should be, I guess. What I am tremendously interested in is science, the earth and the minerals that come with it." Hughes' father invented and patented the modern oil-drill bit−a device with 166 cutting edges−and rented it for $30,000 a well, or dry hole. The bit is still the base of the Hughes fortune. "We don't have a monopoly," Hughes once remarked. "Anyone who wants to dig a well without a Hughes...
...national holidays, the government often marshals tens and even hundreds of thousands of evenly spaced banner carriers and flag wavers. Schoolchildren throughout the country regularly practice precision marching (often with wooden guns), and even China's productive labor is sometimes carried out in a manner resembling close-order drill. Whatever the occasion, there is one standardized piece of equipment for China's nearly 800 million people-a copy of the little red book containing Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung...
NROTC students (who were in uniform, since the showing was this week's drill for them) sat in a body in the front section of the auditorium. They were much more subdued than the civilian" rear sections, which kept up a steady fire of laughter, hisses and cheers for the demonstrating students. At no time, however, was the film inaudible, and there were no incidents of violence...
PERHAPS the encounter with the naked masturbator reveals more than the obvious elements of black humor. Certainly, it was a little frightening; officially so frightening, in fact, that the cops had to be called in, a fire drill held and all of Barnard Hall evacuated at 2 a. m. so that every last room could be checked to make sure the poor naked dude wasn't lurking behind some bookcase. It was, also, unquestionably, a bit pathetic. Any man who has to get his kicks by displaying himself in front of a bunch of weary, bleary-eyed Radcliffe girls must...
...touchdown, Soviet ground controllers performed a number of checks to determine the spacecraft's exact orientation and location on the moon-information vital for calculating Luna 16's correct homeward course. Then came the main business of the mission. On a signal from earth, an electric-powered drilling device, capable of moving horizontally and vertically, reached out like a mechanical hand; Western observers speculated that it was positioned by controllers watching it on TV. The drill then burrowed about 14 in. into the adjacent lunar soil and brought up a core sample, which was packed into a container...