drill

Businesses for years overproduced and drilled themselves into bankruptcy; investors have since pressured them to rein in spending and return cash to shareholders via buybacks and dividends.

The message she and her team try to drill into the hostages and their families is that everyone will want to see them.

They drilled through a newly plastered and redecorated area where they discovered three bags inside a tea-towel, with two containing a Skorpion submachine gun each and a pistol in the remaining package.

Its drill sergeants are on Cam and the rest of his new platoon like flies on dung from the moment they wake until they go to sleep.

At Eugene Field Grammar School in Chicago, we had regular air-raid drills, and I remember going about the playground there singing: