Word: pinpoints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Poor People's Campaign to camp on federal land. He attacked the Kerner Commission for abetting rioting by talking of white racism. There is "an aura of belief," he said shortly before the convention, "that rioting is the inalienable right of the ghetto resident. If one wants to pinpoint the cause of riots, it would be this permissive climate and the misguided compassion of public opinion." He added: "It is not evil conditions that cause riots, but evil...
...Salt streamed out to survey the damage and were hit by the second wave of planes that caught ambulances, taxis and a television mobile unit from Amman parked out in the open. Two dozen people sought shelter in a culvert, but an Israeli fighter pilot blew it apart with pinpoint rocket fire. Not a vehicle on the roads in the area escaped damage or direct hits. Altogether, the Jordanians claimed, 34 people died and 82 were wounded. Leaflets dropped from the planes made clear the lesson Israel intended: "Death for those who ask for death. Life for those who want...
Mike Powell, a junior at Atlanta's Morehouse College, observed, "I's an atmosphere. Racism is very difficult to pinpoint. There is often a very thin line between discrimination and lack of intimacy. You can't draw a line and say, 'on this side is discrimination and on that side is unfamiliarity...
This step-by-step learning process can help a student pinpoint where he is having trouble...
...Opera as soon as the Royal Ballet left. Leading the company was Maya Plisetskaya, a ballerina assoluta of the broad, open Moscow style, which makes the sheer physical act of moving beautifully through space look like a natural way of life. The Russians offered virtuoso, bravo-catching nights of pinpoint turns, rock-steady balances and astronautic high leaps. But there was little to praise in the undernourished bits, snippets and shards of 19th century choreography that provided the vehicles for the Bolshoi's spectacular stars...