Word: pinpoints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...west they regularly make the world's biggest overwater hop-San Francisco to Honolulu, swing southwest by pinpoint navigation through the string of coral dots that lead to New Zealand, to Australia and New Guinea...
...Bombers ranged in small groups over France, smashing away with meticulous accuracy at pinpoint targets. The Eighth Air Force appeared still to be far short of the vast number of planes needed for raids in force...
Behind this pinpoint controversy looms an important issue. The Government's $25,-ooo salary ceiling has severely reduced the amount of work movie stars can do for pay. Hollywood wants its stars to use up their working capital in pictures, not on the air. But if all studios joined 20th Century's boycott, radio would lose a majority of its best names. Gene Tierney's husband's cigars might be the entering wedge...
...cases he got the job after other generals had been recalled, possibly too late. His own motto is: "Attack, attack and reattack, even when you are on the defensive." His politeness is unfailing, but staff officers confronting him for the first time remark his pale blue eyes with unwavering, pinpoint pupils, his clipped mustache and his clipped, machine-gun orders; they regard him as a somewhat dashing but thoroughly competent commander. His chief aide in the field as the battle joined was Lieut. General Bernard Law Montgomery, 54-year-old Ulsterman, who is merciless, almost brutal...
...R.A.F.'s technique is new in other respects. Instead of trying for pinpoint targets and bringing bombs home if they cannot be found, the R.A.F. is now going after the whole industrial districts of towns like Rostock, which they hit four nights in succession (TIME, May 4). Moreover the weight of bombs dropped on Rostock because of bigger planes and repeat visits was 800 tons compared to the 530 tons dropped on Coventry...