Word: pinpointing
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Paper Hat. The bell saved Greenwood. As Big Ben boomed midnight he moved an end to debate and a call to vote. Bedlam broke again. It was almost a minute before he could be heard. Then Tory Sir Gifford Fox raised a parliamentary pinpoint, contended that Greenwood was out of order because his motion was made after, not exactly at, 12 o'clock as procedure stipulates. Sir Gifford himself was hoisted on a point of procedure. He did not have on a hat-and regulations call for a member to be "sitting and covered" when raising a point...
...runic alphabets-is not the only tangible evidence. Holand has tried to show in earlier works (notably Westward from Vinland, 1940) that Norse "mooring stones" have also been found in the Kensington region, to say nothing of a few "medieval Norse" swords and halberds. America: 1355-1364 attempts to pinpoint the American headquarters of the rune-stone party...
...type rockets will be intensively improved in the U.S., and presumably elsewhere. Radio controls are being refined; atomic warheads will make the pinpoint accuracy of World War II unnecessary...
...peacetime, it can guide radar-less vessels to safety with pinpoint accuracy...
...easy to poison, because it soon learns to detect a give-away taste or smell. But "1080," a chemical known as sodium fluoroacetate, fools the cagiest rat. It is soluble in water and can be offered in a tasteless solution. And a pinpoint of it kills a half-pound rat. Drawback: "1080" is also deadly to dogs, other "small mammals...