Word: pinpoints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...battlefield itself, swift jet fighter-bombers flash in under the low-hanging clouds to dump napalm and explosives on enemy positions that are now as close as 300 yards to the base perimeter. The Marines are, in fact, relying on air to do the job of pinpoint destruction that their own artillery would normally undertake. Reason: they lost so many shells when their ammo dump was hit three weeks ago that they are conserving ammunition for the big attack...
Actually it is hard for the anti-grant spokesmen to pinpoint specific instances in which the Government has attached restrictive strings to its aid. Though religious services may not be held in a Government-financed science building, a college could easily build several chapels with the money it would otherwise have to spend on a science center. Beloit College President Miller Upton, who readily accepts aid, notes that some federal construction requires the temporary erection of a building-site sign with Lyndon B. Johnson's name in letters three inches high-but Upton agrees that this hardly hinders...
...drift-billowed deserts. More than 2,000 Army, Navy and Air Force men, Civil Air Patrol flyers and Job Corps workers aided state road and rescue crews in missions varying from "candy drops" (for the 22,000 Indian boarding-school students stranded during the holidays) to "Operation Haylift" (pinpoint parachuting of fodder to the 584,600 or more horses, sheep and cattle...
...enemy fire from Cambodia, hot pursuit was not only justified but "indeed a military necessity." The U.S. has launched a new diplomatic initiative to convince Prince Norodom Sihanouk and other "interested" nations, including Russia, of the North Vietnamese presence in Cambodia. It is privately circulating documents that pinpoint the evidence and calling for a strengthening of the International Control Commission...
...Yorkers got back in the game on Buzz Hill's pinpoint shot at 4:31 of the second period. The former Princeton defenseman carried down the left boards, fought off two checks, and picked up the exact lower right corner with his shot...