Word: pinpricking
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...hack at U.S. bombers on the Tokyo run. The Iwo airfield had already been a welcome haven for 30 crippled or fuel-shy 6-293 winging their way home to the Marianas from the fire-bombing of Japanese cities. The price the U.S. had paid for the desolate pinprick of land on the road to Japan had been bitterly high. But while they winced at the cost, military men and most U.S. citizens knew that it was part, and only part, of the stern bargain that had to be made...
Meanwhile, Nazi air squadrons made pinprick night attacks. They harassed beachheads occasionally, kept convoy gunners alert to repel assaults for which Berlin claimed good results...
Last week Mme. Wei tossed a new idea into the ring of Far Eastern planning: a couple of good sound lickings would melt Japanese "nerves of steel," pinprick Japan's bubble empire. The annihilation of Japan would be unnecessary. The power of the military party broken, a Japanese republic could educate the people away from long-established habits of Emperor worship and blind obedience to war lords...
...Bosanska Krajina Partisans created a tiny state in the wedge-shaped area in Croatia bounded by the towns of Glamoch, Drvar, Petrovach, Kljuch and Donji Vakuf. They prepared systematically for major military operations. They trained their ever-growing armies, not for pinprick sabotage, but for a major campaign to drive the Axis from Yugoslavia...
...feeling between official Panama and the U. S. Army has grown. One of President Arias' decrees is that all business with the Panamanian Government must be conducted in Spanish, which is a pinprick in the seat of the Army's breeches. Another pinprick was violent criticism by the Legislature of the U. S. Army for starting construction of an airport on private property which the Army intended to purchase. The Army's Commander, Major General Daniel Van Voorhis, was refused permission to sit in a pew of the British Legation at an Independence Day service in Panama...