Word: pinpointing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MASSACHUSETTS' PAUL TSONGAS. He campaigned on the slogan "This Democrat can make a big difference in Congress." Today, a half-year into his term, Tsongas, 34, is hard pressed to pinpoint what he has been able to do that has made any real difference to anyone. He admits: "This has been a manic-depressive six months...
...reasonable standards, his performance was a triumph. With his team down 2-0 to the Dallas Tornado at the beginning of the second half, Pelé set up a goal with a pinpoint pass to teammate Mordechai Shpigler. Then he scored the tying goal by deflecting a Shpigler kick past Tornado Goalkeeper Ken Cooper with a deft flick of his head...
...reckoned that Bufalino, Plumeri and Granello would be anxious to get even with Castro. The agency asked the three to use their contacts in Cuba to assess the chances that an invasion would set off a popular uprising against Castro. The CIA also assigned the Mafia to pinpoint the roads that Castro might use to deploy troops and tanks in meeting attacking forces. Bufalino, Plumeri and Granello ordered their old contacts on the island to set up a small network of spies and authorized part of the $450,000 to be used for paying them...
...future historians ever try to pinpoint the time when sport pay scales turned preposterous, they may well pick last week. In three cities money was being tossed about like so much confetti...
...more than $200 billion, more than 50,000 lives, and all the present tragic and so stupid horror of evacuation of Americans, and these poor wretches to whom we owe nothing in any way, shape or form, had our allied air power been permitted to proceed with all-out pinpoint bombing of the Viet Cong's power and supply depots, thus bringing them to their knees and terminating the action long before the year...