"drill" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The 160 local employees and 32 Americans who worked there regularly practiced duck-and-cover drills.
- And if American kids have to go back to duck-and-cover drills, well, same deal.
- But growing up in an America of bomb shelters and duck-and-cover drills, I found Godzilla comforting.
- Mr. Carroll describes the duck-and-cover drills that terrified millions of schoolchildren, the days of dead certainty that nuclear fire would rain from the skies.
- Instead of fire drills, his school held duck-and-cover drills.
- As a rule, the duck-and-cover drills and other programs are sparsely attended, but this year has been different because of those 15 terrifying seconds in October.
- For a generation of baby boomers, Mr. Wexler's films were as dependable a classroom ritual as the duck-and-cover drill.
- But so were the days when we were doing duck-and-cover air-raid drills in school, or going through the scares of Three Mile Island and Love Canal.
- Yet the cold war is still a vivid memory for nostalgia-prone baby boomers who participated in duck-and-cover drills at school and monitored the space race, he said.
- These are what the Pentagon calls "homeland threats," a phrase echoing from the 1950's and 1960's, when fallout shelters and duck-and-cover drills were the rage.
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