Word: pinpoints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...apse, stark against the black salt, he set a 20-ft. cross made of thick, wooden poles. Last week, in preparation for the Christmas service, the miners were putting a finishing touch on their church: a 2,200-ft. tunnel to the mountain slope, which will provide a reassuring pinpoint of daylight for nervous visitors...
When working on rockets in Germany, Von Braun fired a V-2 on a clear day 15 minutes after the sun had set. The stars were already coming out, and as the great rocket climbed upward, the flame of its exhaust diminished to a shining pinpoint and disappeared. Then the rocket broke into the sunlight above the shadow of the earth and gleamed, brilliantly visible, against the darkening sky. He watched it through its full course, like a bright, climbing star, and followed it down again into the shadow...
...When you ask me what kind of comedy I do," Buttons says, "I can't pinpoint it. I'm a little guy, and that's what I play all the time-a little guy and his troubles." He thinks of himself as a reporter: "Every comedian is one. You go somewhere, and look around you and say to yourself, 'Wouldn't it be funny if such & such happened?' " Success is happening so fast that Buttons still drives a Pontiac ("Next week, a Cadillac, maybe"). As for the future: "I'm going...
Gallup is also increasing the polling among the lower income groups by assigning districts to polltakers. In 1948, when polltakers could pick their own areas, they often passed up slum districts. To this Gallup has added greater use of a check which market researchers have found accurate: "pinpoint sampling," in which every third house is visited in 150 U.S. electoral precincts picked at random. This is the method Gallup will use for his last pre-election poll, taken the Saturday before Election...
...revolutionary electron gun, developed by the University of Chicago's Dr. Robert J. Moon, is being perfected for X-raying hard-to-get-at organs such as the stomach and lower intestines. Using a pinpoint X-ray beam and a scanning system, it throws a brilliant, enlarged image on a TV screen, subjects both patient and radiologist to much smaller and safer doses of X rays than older methods...