The nuns made us climb under our desks for air-raid drills, and cried and sent us home early the day J.F.K. was shot.
At one point, the sounds of drills and crying babies in a dentist's office have her tripping through the waiting room like a soldier under fire.
Outside the room where Mrs. Whitman spoke, the National Wildlife Federation had posted signs calling the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska "too wild to drill," a rallying cry in opposition to another administration policy.
How pathetic that in the midst of a presidential campaign the loudest voices we are hearing on this subject are crying: "Drill!
After gasoline prices rose above $4 a gallon last summer, Republican cries of "drill, baby, drill" forced candidate Barack Obama into a rare retreat.
The Bush administration and the McCain campaign pushed for lifting the Congressional moratorium on most offshore drilling, and Republican campaign rallies were punctuated by cries of "Drill, baby, drill".
(One toddler, who seems the essence of sweetness and light at first, speaks for her generation during the muster drill. She begins crying, rips off her life vest and stamps on it).
This, from the party of the now-silent cries of "drill, baby, drill".
It's been a rallying cry for both the "drill, baby drill" crowd and the environmentally minded, albeit from different positions.
By doing so, however, he may have at least blunted some of the cries of drill-baby-drill during the summer driving season.
