Word: pinpoints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
Flyers welcomed news of additional emergency landing fields. Two platoons of Negro troops landed on six pinpoint islands between Saipan and Iwo, and took them at the cost of a single pistol shot. Back from a visit to the Marianas, General of the Army Henry H. Arnold announced that Superforts would soon operate from Okinawa, cutting over 1,000 miles from their round trip to Japan...
...Plan. On July 12 Operation Mallory Major began to work. Mitchells and Marauders called at the bridges along some 200 miles of river from the Adriatic to Alessandria, cut them down with pinpoint bombing. The Germans were caught with their flak and fighters down, watched their bridges crumple into...
Before the last push began, the German positions were methodically bombed for 80 minutes. A group of bombers attacked every five minutes by the clock. Between assaults, fighter-bombers swooped in to knock out pinpoint targets. Nazi fighters jumped the first group of bombers. They were lumped themselves by escort fighters, and for 15 minutes the air was full of swirling dogfights. Then the Nazi ships fled, and stayed away...
...Hello, hold it! Is this damn air show over or not? I don't like this pinpoint bombing...