Word: pinpoint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weaponry still further with another memorandum demanding greater caution. Hard on its heels came an Air Force decree tightening control over some 200 "free-strike zones" at which pilots had been free to blast away at will. Henceforth FAC planes will patrol each of the known Viet Cong zones, pinpoint strikes within them as in the rest of South Viet Nam. A B-52 raid originally planned for the big allied sweep of the Ben Cat area fortnight ago (TIME, Sept. 24) was canceled on the outside chance that some stray bombs might hit uninvolved villages. And in an area...
Nowadays, the classic Stanford-Binet and the Wechsler-Bellevue IQ tests are given only when educators need to pinpoint the mental ability of someone who seems unusually gifted or retarded and so needs special guidance. They must be administered by an expert and require a session of one hour for each student. Much more common are group intelligence tests (experts prefer to call them "scholastic aptitude" tests) such as the Otis Mental Ability test, which comes in an all-picture version for Grades 1 to 4 and with multiple choice questions for Grades...
...required to maintain combat communications, whether at the walkie-talkie level of squad leader or at the more sophisticated level of division headquarters. Also in short supply: spotting equipment for mortars; warning systems to detect approaching air craft; good guidance and control systems to give fast, low-flying bombers pinpoint accuracy...
...John I. Goodlad, director of U.C.L.A.'s University Elementary School, proposed a highly selective sample testing of a representative few students and the use of computers to break the results into age groups, regions and types of schools. The aim: to rate groups not individuals, and thus pinpoint educational "soft spots...
Unfortunately, Hallelujah drowns its troubles in talk, and the sobering effects are compounded by a mock-historical narrator who tries to pinpoint everyone's position on a map from time to time. Lancaster, a commanding presence as always, looks permanently flabbergasted over his first venture into an out-and-out farce, though his attitude seems appropriate to the movie's funniest scene-pondering strategy after a fierce battle waged in a blinding sandstorm, he finds that there hasn't been a single casualty on any side. Actress Remick's pioneer prudery is the standard brand, softened...