Word: pinpoints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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KOHLER STRIKE, longest in U.S. history, is next target of Arkansas Democrat John McClellan's Senate special investigating committee. Aim is to pinpoint acts of violence since U.A.W. struck Wisconsin plumbing-fixture firm 46 months ago. Top witnesses: Kohler Boss Herbert V. Kohler, U.A.W.'s Walter Reuther...
...case. One school of medical opinion has held that birth injury (usually from high forceps) is the commonest cause; also, that the nature of symptoms depends on just which part of the brain was damaged. Dr. Perlstein long ago became convinced that these were oversimplifications, set out to pinpoint cause and effect in the only way possible: study the living patients in detail, keeping a minute record of symptoms, then examine their brains after death to see which symptoms go with what type of brain damage. Parents of palsied children who have been studied in this way are asked...
...FALL, by Albert Camus. This year's Nobel Prizewinner edging away from existentialism toward religion in an effort to pinpoint the dilemma of modern man. His boozy, sometimes boring hero tries hard to believe that man is the center of all things, yet is more than half persuaded that he is wrapped in original...
...Schmidt that keep the competition close. "Everyone is using a four-three defense* now," explains Layne. "And from the four-three they can do anything. Say the four linemen rush you -then you've got seven men in the secondary, and you've really got to pinpoint your passes. Or they can 'red dog' you nice, with the four linemen and three linebackers all coming...
...from being just another tranquilizer, the hormone brought out hostility and in some cases sexual drive in previously depressed patients, which helped the psychiatrists to pinpoint more precisely the emotional problems they faced. Because T3 may have temporarily disturbing as well as beneficial effects, Dr. Flach and colleagues see little place for its use outside a well-staffed psychiatric hospital. There, they believe, it shows great promise...