Word: pinpoints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pinpoint Breakaway. At 35,000 ft. Pilot Jensen chanted the breakaway signal: 5-4-3-2-1. Then, as the Skyrocket dropped, the B-29 banked sharply to the left. Bridgeman was on his own. With bare hands (no gloves for this critical job), he flicked four switches in quick sequence. Each switch fired a rocket chamber. They made a curious sound-a "bloof" and a "schplunk," as Bridgeman describes it. A trail of dense white vapor streamed out from the tail. Ten seconds after the drop, Bridgeman was speeding faster than sound. He did not even feel this "passing...
...time, to a Geiger counter. The rate of growth of human hair is about one-half inch a month, so when the scientists came to a place that emitted rays from more arsenic than any healthy citizen ought to have in his system, they were able to pinpoint the time when the victim had been poisoned...
...LARSEN, 26, U.S. champion, a moody, often bad-mannered lefthander who relies on pinpoint volleys, dogged retrieving and the endurance of a bloodhound...
...separate air force of their own for the first time. Pilots and crews of the Eighteenth will train and work hand in glove with the Sand Airborne Division at nearby Fort Bragg, N.C. on the highly complex problems of airloading men and equipment and dropping them on a pinpoint target on split-second schedules...
...communique writers in jazzing up their bulletins with bumptious prose. Some sampie phrases from last week's communiques: carrier-based planes made attacks that were "slashing" and "in close support of embattled ground troops"; they "swarmed over the entire breadth of Korea." The Navy's shelling was "pinpoint bombardment...