Drills

That way if there are any fire drills in the morning I can deal with before the call.

Schoolchildren in New Zealand regularly undertake earthquake drills.

Your coffee always drills a hole straight through me.

On our campus, we have earthquake drills at least once a year.

In the workshop I have a bit of everything: hammers, chisels, drills, saws... Use what you need.

Stefan's school would routinely practice lockdown drills.

More than 1.3 million people across Japan held disaster drills Monday on the 80th anniversary of the worst earthquake in the nation's history.

Read this paragraph carefully and remember this: Pescara is a pass through the Apennines, the mountain range that extends the length of the Italian Peninsula. You might call this trivia, or some sort of geography lesson. But in fact, it's an example of a new kind of exercise. Not for your muscles, but for that blob inside your skull. New federally-funded research shows that ten mental drills each day keep the brain fit today and help fend off forgetfulness in middle and old age.

We spend virtually no concerted time or effort honing our intellectual fitness. Yet the study suggests that daily mental drills will have a lot more impact on our longevity and wellbeing than abdominal crunches and boring hours on the treadmill. The brainpower exercises we complete today can improve our mental agility as far as five years into the future. No workout at the gym can match that.

"What homework do you have for the summer?" "I have the summer notebook, kanji and math drills, plus crafts to do and a picture diary." "Just the usual stuff. How about you, Kenta?" "I didn't have the picture diary, but I have to do research and a book report. Book reports are such a pain." "Hang in there."