For 90 minutes, the fire support ships blazed away, trying to neutralize whole areas rather than destroy pinpoint targets, since dense jungle concealed most of the individual fortifications and supply dumps.
As a light transport, a Piper Cub could drop a case of dry rations, for example, with pinpoint accuracy from an altitude of 200 feet.
Slowly at first, like a rocket: faster and faster, dwindling from Earth, becoming a vanishing pinpoint like a black, daylight star.
He used a synchronized model of the planet topinpoint originating sites.
My recommendation is that as soon as we get back we conduct a hard-nosed professional inspection of the fleet to pinpoint all the cats-and-dogs these dunderheads have jerry-rigged into the equipment and the software.
Pinpoint their positions to us as we come in so we can clean them all out fast.
So, I couldn't--I couldn't pinpoint Saturday morning.
One of the fellows mentioned that he thought he might have, but in further discussion he was unable to pinpoint whether he was positive of this or whether he just thought it was.
If they still do the same thing as they did then that would pinpoint the time when he came in.
I believe, if I were to pinpoint it, I would say it was between the 15th of October and November 1.
Tom showed them the section of the Map he had examined, with the pinpoint of light representing Roger Hunter's asteroid claim.
Pinpoint in Space Tom knew now that it was the right thing to do.
Tawney's face was a study of uneasiness, but he clearly could not pinpoint what the trouble was.
The observatory computer will pinpoint her for us and chart a collision course so we can cut out and meet her instead of trailing her for a week.
For each asteroid which had been identified, and its orbit plotted, there was a pinpoint of light on the screen.
When he had looked at the Map, he had seen a single red pinpoint of light, Roger Hunter's asteroid, with nothing in the heavens anywhere near it.
It was probably he, more than anyone else, who won the title for the Cosmos -- not by scoring goals, but by controlling the midfield with his pinpoint touch passes and setting up the offense to go in for the shot.
It's hard to get pinpoint accuracy under pressure.
Carefully they retraced their steps, trying to pinpoint what could be going wrong.
I make the latter remark as was developed earlier, in that the size of the large defect in the skull was so great and the fragmentation was so complex that it was impossible to accurately pinpoint the exit of the missile in the head wound.
You have already testified earlier today that you were unable to pinpoint with precision angle A to B on 388 because of the reconstruction of the scalp.
Now, I think you may have answered this, but I want to pinpoint just when you heard that statement which you have attributed to President Kennedy in relationship to the sound which you described as a firecracker.
Eventually they released her from the hospital's care, unable topinpoint the problem after countless tests, both mental and physical.
I wished to be the self-sufficient master of my life, yet I first needed to define my beliefs and pinpoint my destination.
I attempted a painting of a rural scene, and on other days I would draw, sew, or macrame; at times I would pinpoint my interest in the creation of gifts and culinary delights.
He couldn't pinpoint why it bothered him, since the Protector was by definition divine rather than human, loaning Joanie some of His or Her powers; why should he be disturbed if the physical body was non-human as well?
He couldn't pinpoint the reason he had taken to Piety, though it probably had something to do with the fact that she managed not to hate him.
Both officers reminded Medart irresistibly of predators, though he couldn't pinpointthe reason .
It was--I can't pinpointthe date exactly, I don't have the notes here for that.
However, you can determine if it was left within say a few days, but certainly you can't pinpoint it.
Surely there was a faint stirring in the corner, the merest pinpoint of a sound.
Sometimes only a pinpoint of light, when a cigarette glowed from a long intake, showed where they moved.
At the same instant the dull red pinpoint winked on.
So Time wasn't too vast to pinpoint after all, not when two people were so securely wedded in mind and heart that their thoughts could build a bridge across Time.
They'd never find him because Time was too vast to pinpoint one man in such a vast waste of years.
Sometimes the Time Observatory wouldpinpoint an age and hover over it while his companions took painstaking historical notes.
And a green streak of fire--one of Gunnar's misses--went careening off into space until it shrank to a pinpoint of light and then vanished.
A pinpointof light that crawled toward the lone sun and its single huge planet.
You don't have to be a professional historian or even a data-collecting research specialist in the police procedure field to pinpoint the origin of Big-Image interrogation in the middle years of the twentieth century.
But we'll have to bring most of the airframe into sharp focus on the viewplate, and pinpoint his every movement.
More than two days later, again at night, the few look-outs on the lonely fishing craft off Cape Cod might have seen a pinpoint of cherry-red appear off the eastern horizon and make a wide arc up the heavens.
Jim Wilson had seen the thing first--a pinpointof cherry red that moved upward in a perfect arc against the brilliant white constellations of the east.
He's shown he can guide asteroids to near-pinpoint accuracy.
They will definitely meet any demands I make, after we destroy the five atmosphere generators on Mars with pinpoint accuracy.
Those regions were enormous beyond imagining; you had to pinpointyour thread of tiny energy almost precisely.
I couldn't pinpoint the Kuzaks in the Belt, but that's not unusual.
It showed a fragile, pearly ring, almost diaphanous, hanging tilted against spatial blackness and pinpoint stars.
Away in the distance he had seen a pinpoint of light like a dull star low down upon the horizon, and he knew that Tottie had lighted her candle in the lonely hut a quarter of a mile away.
Neither of them had observed that pinpoint of flickering yellow light that was more like the elusive glimmer of a firefly than the luminous brilliance of a star.
When you start looking for a pinpoint of light only six times as bright as the surrounding sky, it's almost impossible to find it, even on a clear day.
Hynek had said Venus would have been a pinpoint of light.
None of the descriptions could even vaguely be called a pinpoint of light.
I was trying to pinpoint the day that I must have come in from work.
Nothing that I could pinpoint as having happened that---- Mr. BALL.
From a tiny opening in the door jamb, a pinpoint of light appeared.
Kirk squinted craftily at the pinpoint of light with one closed eye.
If we can pinpoint these, we can then more precisely determine the best means of therapeutic operation.
If we try to pinpoint the factors that have been responsible for our lives not having turned out better, we tend to blame environmental limitations, or else we feel guilt for what we see as our own failings.
I am sure there is a pending bill because my recollection is that it was called to our attention--I cannot pinpoint it for you--but I think there is pending legislation now in this matter.
There was no question but that the gun and the telescopic lens could pinpoint the President perfectly.
He could do it at this time, to pinpoint that issue.
I would say I can't pinpoint it even within 10 minutes, but I do know it was a short time.
Maybe it is easier to pinpoint the movement of that car in terms of when you heard that pop bottle?
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