Word: pinpoint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...With a pinpoint, mid-Pacific landing by Major Leroy Gordon Cooper, a roar of triumph and a burst of national pride, the Mercury phase of the U.S.'s man-in-space program ended last May. Last week it seemed apparent that, save for sheer luck and pluck, Project Mercury might just as readily have ended in disaster. In a 444-page epilogue to Mercury, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration told a hair-raising tale of failures, ineptitude and just plain carelessness among the private contractors who built and equipped the space capsules...
...atomic wallop comes in comparatively "little" packages. Yet many of these nuclear runts can carry up to a 100-kiloton load-which is five times the power of the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. These include the Army's 75-mile Sergeant (now replacing the aging Corporal), Lacrosse (for pinpoint blasting of pillboxes, bunkers, etc. less than 20 miles away), the 12-mile Honest John and the 10-mile Little John, the 1,200-yard Davy Crockett (smallest of all the nuclear weapons, it can be hauled about on a Jeep, is designed to blast such targets as tanks...
...days of Walter Reed's famous campaign against yellow fever in Cuba at the turn of the century, when one researcher died and others had close calls. For the two physicians and the technician had been working selflessly, at great risk, in an internationally supported crash program to pinpoint the cause of a mysterious disease, and to find a preventive...
...thermogram shows a light spot. Where there are areas of low metabolism-such as hair and scars or inactive growths close to the surface-the bodv temperature is slightly lower, and -',e thermogram is proportionately darker. Routine thermometer readings might show a fever, but they would not pinpoint its cause...
Then, eleven days after drowning, he entered a terrifying crisis. The doctors still cannot pinpoint the cause of his relapse, but the boy became unconscious and uttered sudden, meaningless shrieks. He threshed around so violently that for two weeks he had to be sedated. For a month, it seemed that Roger's brain had been all but destroyed. He developed an enormous appetite and opened his mouth for food whenever his lips were touched. He went blind, and fell on his face against the bedpost when...