Word: pinpointing
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...trotted out a succession of patients who all looked and felt ill, had assorted aches and pains, usually with some fever and local swelling or inflammation. The trouble, the professor explained, was that these patients had not yet developed any of the few specific symptoms by which he could pinpoint just what particular disease each suffered from. To the bright-eyed Selye, this was only half the story at best: in his view, all the patients already suffered from a state of "just being sick," which medicine was ignoring. He wanted to know how this came about, and what...
Vital Statistics. Tape or talk, Evashevski had finally found the formula for success. The Gophers fumbled on the fourth play from scrimmage and the fired-up lowans wasted not a moment. Quarterback Ken Ploen called his shots with cool aplomb, flicked a couple of precise, pinpoint passes, and, eight plays later, the Hawkeyes scored...
With your beautiful pictures of Civil War battlefields you also show two maps, one with Arkansas, but not a single pin point to indicate that we were in that war too. Can't we rate at least a pinpoint acknowledgment? Pea Ridge opened up the Mississippi River for Shiloh and Vicksburg...
...even divide people into the tough and easy. It's never the same. With Willie Mays, for example, I don't put on anything special. I just try to mix up the pitches on him. I can't pinpoint what I pitch. I pitch the same to everybody-low and away, or high and tight...
Parsons' intense absorbtion in his studies may further account for his apparent impersonality. Any questions directed at his personal accomplishments are invariably answered with generalized evaluations of progress in sociology. When asked to pinpoint a significant experience in his life, he brushes over "a few nice and heartwarming honors," and emphasizes the "sheer excitement of being in the middle of what seem to be important new ideas...