Word: pinpoint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scores of laboratories gadgeteering goes on. Atomic medicines are being put into capsules, safer and easier to handle than long "hot" drinks. To irradiate cancers in the stomach and bladder, balloons are inserted which can be filled with radioactive liquid or fitted with a solid, pinpoint source of radioactivity. Radioactive gold wire is built into hollow nylon sutures to be stitched into a tumor. For external radiation, frighteningly powerful amounts of atomic energy are being baked into little wafers of cobalt ("the poor man's radium...
Norman Thomas, a candidate for president in the last five elections under the Socialist banner, will pinpoint foreign policy errors at 8 p.m. Monday in New Lecture Hall...
...reasons for this inadequacy are difficult to pinpoint. The trouble is not in the report's conclusions though many of them verge on platitudes, nor with its facts, though they are often trivial. The report's deepest fault is its lack of any clearly developed point of view against which the facts and conclusions can be measured...
...Pinpoint Bombing...
...seven entries in the three halls is notorious, as far as the dean's office is concerned. The grades of men in the entry are probably no lower than average, but students have a good time on football weekends and occasionally overturn a fire-extinguisher or engage in pinpoint bombing out of the window...