When it came to killing or dying there were no rules; his father had drilled that into them from the beginning.

Reaching down, she slapped the red button to transmit the distress call- one of the few procedures that her father had drilled into her.

Their father hovered and lectured, drilling them in geography and world politics.

I knew my duty to the Halls- hadn't my father drilled it into me?

When he was not at camps, Archey said, he and his father drilled in the gym six days a week.

George W., the oldest child, was only 2 when the family moved to West Texas, where his father drilled for oil.

According to an official biography, his father "drilled him in the Islamic way of life."

That was something her father had drilled into her: always listen for what is not being said.

"I took to heart the instructions my father drilled into my head," he recalls.

His father had drilled that into him when deer hunting back in Alabama, reinforced later by his boot camp sergeant.