Word: pinpricked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...region (formerly Katanga province) into a knee-deep quagmire last week. The downpour further obscured the mysterious war being waged between about 2,000 invaders from neighboring Angola (TIME, March 28) and the forces of Zaïre's autocratic President Mobutu Sese Seko. After launching a few pinprick air raids, Mobutu's Army Chief of Staff Bumba Moaso Djogi claimed that the intruders were in retreat, "abandoning thousands of corpses" behind them...
Working at the U.S. Army's laboratory at Fort Detrick, Md., researchers came up with the shellfish toxin. After receiving the toxin orally or by pinprick, a victim first feels a tingling sensation in the fingers and lips, then dies within ten seconds of painless paralysis. Indeed, according to Colby, U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers carried the toxin-contained in the grooves of a tiny drill bit that was concealed in a silver dollar -when he was shot down over Russia in 1960, but chose...
...effects favored by Mauldin and Herblock. He has developed his own pen-and-ink style, in which faces and forms are distorted past realistic limits. His decisive lines and elongated figures are reminiscent of the technique of British Caricaturist Ronald Searle. Wright's characters, with their ballooning eyeballs, pinprick pupils and ramshackle poses, seem to have stepped out of a Road Runner animated cartoon...
...published secret papers showing a strong anti-Indian bias in Washington's handling of the India-Pakistan war. While hardly of the same magnitude, his story about Ambassador Arthur Watson getting drunk on a commercial airliner also produced red faces-and no denials. That was only a pinprick compared with his ITT charge. Anderson reported that the Justice Department settled an antitrust suit against ITT, on terms relatively favorable to the firm, at about the same time that ITT promised a contribution to help pay for the Republican Convention...
...Certainly not the South Koreans. To be sure, they would like firmer guarantees of U.S. support in the unlikely event that North Korea's Kim II Sung decides to move from his pinprick attacks along the 38th parallel to an all-out assault. But they will be receiving some $750 million from Washington over the next five years to modernize their 620,000-man military force-and to ease the pain of the withdrawal, possibly by 1975, of the 42,000 U.S. troops remaining on their soil...