Word: pinpoint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Against Cornell, Brown fell behind 14-0 early in the first period. Then, for he first time this season, Coach Len Jardine's defense found itself, regrouped, and proceeded to shut out the Big Red and pinpoint-passer Bill Robertson for the rest...
...with a new engine in less than an hour. Its normal armament includes two 20-mm. machine guns, plus any combination of the 200 varieties of bombs and missiles in the Navy's air arsenal. In addition, it has an advanced computer system that delivers its projectiles with pinpoint accuracy...
...dash 400 miles at a top speed of 42 m.p.h. without refueling (v. 100 miles and 18 m.p.h. by the Panzer IVs of Rommel's famed Afrika Korps). It can cross rivers simply by driving underwater, locate targets in the night with infra-red and starlight viewfinders, and pinpoint their range with a laser beam. Automatic devices have reduced the standard four-and five-man crew to three, and a sophisticated stabilization system keeps a big 152-mm. gun so steady that it can fire artillery shells or guided missiles accurately even as the tank rumbles over potholes...
...sophisticated hardware and know-how they can get. Never have they gone up against such a dense and withering air-defense system. There is flak, small-arms fire from rooftops, increasingly frisky MIG fighters and portable surface-to-air missiles. To complicate their mission, Washington demands high-precision pinpoint bombing to avoid endangering civilian populations; pilots must get in close, fast, and make no mistakes...
...plot their locations to within one nautical mile. Under clear skies on a calm ocean, a good navigator can take an equally accurate fix with a sextant. But nothing does the job as well as the Navy's all-weather Transit satellite navigational system, which can pinpoint a ship's position to about 300 ft. Until now, Transit has been classified because it guides the Polaris missile submarine fleet, but last week the Government released it for use by any U.S. merchant ship...