Word: pinprick
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sometime during his vacation in Guatemala this week, Staff Writer Michael Lemonick will unpack his amateur astronomer's 4-in. reflecting telescope, set it on its tripod and focus low on the southern horizon. His target: the pinprick of light from Supernova 1987A, the exploding star that is the subject of his cover story in this week's issue. Lemonick, who lives in Princeton, N.J., has made a hobby of stargazing for the past two years. "I usually set up the telescope in my backyard, but Princeton is just too far north to see 1987A. If you travel...
...issue, and that if Democrats gained even 15 seats in the House, "Reaganomics is going to be in trouble." Frank Reynolds said repeatedly that "Democrats need only five victories to control the Senate," sounding as though he really anticipated that result. David Brinkley, playing the nightlong role of pinprick to his teammates' balloons, muttered his doubts that mild changes of complexion in Congress would much affect what measures were enacted...
...midst of the Perquin assault, the guerrillas launched dozens of pinprick attacks throughout the surrounding Morazán department. The deliberate hit-and-run tactics made it difficult for the army to bring up reinforcements, thus prolonging the insurgents' hold on Perquin. More seriously, they have been carrying out a carefully planned campaign of sabotage against bridges and the power system. Up to 75% of the country has been without electricity at one time or another; the eastern third of El Salvador has been almost completely darkened since mid-July. Last week, as Defense Minister José Guillermo Garcia...
With his bulldog shape and brawling style, Franz Josef Strauss was not about to win the West German national election on looks and charisma. Throughout, he had searched for an issue to stir the electorate, something to pinprick the lofty image of his telegenic opponent, Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. But every time Strauss attacked, Schmidt parried, mostly by reminding voters that West had never been so prosperous or so world affairs. "I sympathize with Strauss," said a Düsseldorf banker. "He has been in the impossible position of trying to find fault with success...
...Florida, stewardesses and a few stewards begin to contract a strange, oozing rash on their faces, chests and hands. The fluid escaping from their inflamed pores looks like blood, though it is not, and so the rash is called "red sweat." Others are stricken by reddish blotches of pinprick-size dots. But either way, before a doctor can diagnose it, the mysterious rash disappears-until, perhaps, the next New York-Florida flight...