Word: precisionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile the Germans were tentative and irresolute, and hamstrung in trying to move men and supplies over a network of highways and railroads that had been wrecked with ruthless precision by superior Allied air power. While their main local reserves butted in vain against the British, they had been helpless...
In short, Dewey wore no man's collar. (His own choice in collars might seem a bit unfashionably stiff, but the U.S. would get used to that.) Thus unencumbered, he could move with absolute precision, unhampered by due bills, to the tasks ahead.
Ditches for Precision. The bombers' targets were close enough to the U.S. lines to make sweating doughboys hug their ditches and curse in exasperated admiration. An American battalion commander who had to take his outfit forward in a few minutes fought with a bulky phone, trying to find out...
The way the skaters run, dance, sing, chase girls, climb ladders, turn cartwheels, there really seems no reason why life itself should not be lived on skates. Yet it is the actual skatin -the grace of Carol Lynne, the teamwork of the Caley Sisters, the precision of the ice ballet...
The fact remains that wherever the robot bomb does hit, it does as much damage to any luckless person, building or section of landscape as though the projectile had been precision-aimed.