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Word: pinpoint (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Peter Lanyon, 43. Living in the harsh hills of Cornwall, Lanyon studies land and sea by foot, car and snorkel, but his passion is to float silently overhead in a red glider (see color). This leads him to probe in paint the mysteries of experience, to try to pinpoint man's place in nature, neither here (on the ground) nor there (in the air). "We must break that 18th century way of looking into the foreground," he insists. "Painting has to look behind its back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: British Abstractions | 8/18/1961 | See Source »

Transit's intricate workings [TIME, July 7] depend on an electronic system that ground stations can "inject" with information enabling the satellite to tell where it is on its orbit. Ships with proper equipment (a precision receiver and a computer) can pinpoint the moment when the satellite comes closest to them, how far away it is, and in what direction. From this information, the computer can quickly deduce the ship's position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sic Transit | 7/14/1961 | See Source »

...Guardia operator watched his screen helplessly, the two blips continued for a second or so on collision course. Then there was one pinpoint where there had been two: the TWA signal had vanished from the radar screen, and the second blip crept on its northeasterly course for eight miles. Then it, too, disappeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Death in the Air | 12/26/1960 | See Source »

...over the Los Angeles Rams to clinch the National Football League's Western title. Next week in the league-championship game against the East's Philadelphia Eagles, the Packers will match the power game of Halfback Paul Hornung and Fullback Jim Taylor against the pinpoint passing of nerveless Eagle Quarterback Norm Van Brocklin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Dec. 26, 1960 | 12/26/1960 | See Source »

...whom the opposing defensive pros would best like to bury is the Baltimore Colts' Lenny Moore (6 ft. 1 in., 190 Ibs.), the most dangerous scoring threat in the league because he is the deep man for the pinpoint passes of Quarterback Johnny Unitas. Among the Colts, Moore is nicknamed "Spats" because he strengthens his spindly shanks with rolls of white tape before each game. The tape helps Moore cut for a pass faster than anyone in the N.F.L. Waiting for Moore to pivot and go, a defensive halfback often watches his feet for the telltale "plant step...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Artful Dodgers | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

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