Word: pinpoint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nearly three decades, the House Un-American Activities Committee has abused free speech in America with its clumsy attempts to pinpoint domestic subversion. Fortunately, in recent years HUAC has reared its ugly head only sporadically and has become a source of amusement for a good part of the nation...
...says Cousy. A dean's list student who is majoring in economics and plans to go on to law school, Evans was the star of B.C.'s 83-82 victory over the perennial Eastern power, Providence, two weeks ago; he set up 16 B.C. baskets with his pinpoint passes, twice stole the ball from Providence's All-America Guard Jimmy Walker, and dribbled the length of the floor to score himself...
Cacophony of Protest. So cloaked and gagged is CIA's operation that a majority of Americans cannot recite even its most dramatic feats: its pinpoint reporting about day-by-day developments leading to the explosion of Red China's first nuclear device, its brilliant success in wiretapping Soviet army headquarters in East Berlin,* its nick-of-time revelation in 1962 that Russian missile bases were abuilding in Cuba. Even more mysterious to most Americans than CIA itself is its director, Richard McGarrah Helms, 53, an intense, controlled, self-effacing professional who holds one of the most delicate...
...Central Highlands near the Cambodian border, elements of the U.S. 4th Infantry Division killed 225 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese in a series of fulminating fire fights after the Reds had ambushed two of its companies. B-52 bombers from Guam plastered the Red positions with pinpoint accuracy, while the men of the 4th fought their way out of the hole. All told, it was one of the war's bloodiest weeks to date, and the blood was predominantly from the other side...
Their main objective in writing to Rusk, the spokesman said, was to "pinpoint the areas of discussion," and "carry the dialogue one step further...