Word: precisionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Running Battle. After the first Manila raids (Sept. 9-10), Bull Halsey, with his hair slicked back and his khaki shirt newly starched, had entertained his staff aboard his flagship at a predated Thanksgiving dinner. For an hour or so, life had seemed calm and leisurely. But there was no...
He had served in the Rhineland occupation (in the same area that his First Army's maps now cover). He returned to a ten-year tour of troop duty, of instruction in the Army's schools, of teaching from the textbooks. For 14 years Major Courtney Hodges had...
The Taylor report said little about Belgium and Holland. "As for Germany itself," it declared, "careful . . . artillery fire and precision bombing to protect art . . . will be followed."
In the Varsity event at the end of the regatta, M.I.T. pulled ahead of Cornell a half-mile through the course and held a two-length lead for the remainder of the contest. Coach Haines' tutelages again showed their determination but lack of precision and finished 15 seconds after the...
With almost metronomic precision, the Dewey train clacked West. It arrived late only once (Des Moines); if it was ahead of time, it loitered in the yards so as to arrive in town on the very pin point of schedule. The advance of the train was prepared for with the...