"But I kept drilling into him, it's not going to be the same," Mr. Cessna said softly.
It was just ludicrous that she just kept drilling me with email after email, over and over.
"We became a little bit frustrated with each other and it showed obviously to them, which allowed them to kind of feed off it and they kept drilling and drilling and it became harder for us".
Presented with unexampled access, a colossal advance, and the subject of a lifetime, he kept drilling holes and, he thought, coming up empty: no gusher of revelation, no mother lode of meaning.
His shareholders had begun to think that he was a crank — the company was heavily in debt, and its share price had plunged from thirty dollars to ten — and yet Mitchell kept drilling one unprofitable well after another.
The team collected water samples from the lens, and then kept drilling until reaching the lake surface itself.
Finally, the agency's second call offered a clue: "They kept drilling me about salad," Whitt recalled.
Tom Stamsnijder fell off the group's pace outside the final kilometer and Cancellara, likely unaware, kept drilling his squad to get them to the line as fast as possible.
