Word: pinpointing
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From the U.S. Army of World War I, Pratt picks Charles P. Summerall, another artilleryman who rose to be a corps commander. Unlike his big-gun colleagues who advocated steamroller barrages, Summerall believed in pinpoint targets, but what endears him most to Pratt is his flat belief that "artillery exists only to protect and support infantry...
...early operas such emasculated male soprano songbirds as Senesino and Farinelli embellished their arias beautifully and at will, until Gluck in the second half of the 18th Century put them in their place with pinpoint notation, made them stick to the score...
Occasionally too transfixed by Tallulah's performance to make notes, TIME'S representatives also had to contend with her pet bird, a light blue budgereegah named Gaylord, who swooped gleefully around the living room, made pinpoint landings on their shoulders, pecked at their pencils, cigarettes and Bernstein's shoelaces...
...Arabs planned uprisings, an economic blockade, concentrated attacks on outlying Jewish settlements and pinpoint attacks against the long exposed borders of the crazy-quilt Jewish state. The Arabs seemed resigned to the prospect of an armed struggle. They regarded partition in its present form as so outrageous that there was no alternative...
...Force admitted that the discoveries would not make much difference to navigation or to scientific theories. For reasons of security, the Air Force refused to pinpoint the new poles...