41. "This is not a pinprick , " one top Clinton administration official said Wednesday. 42. "There will be no pinprick strikes, " the president said in the letter. 43. One defense analyst calls the bombings a " pinprick " effort with little deterrent value. 44. A people who survived the Blitz may feel entitled to treat every incident since as a pinprick . 45. That means attacks on serious military targets and headquarters, not pinprick raids on a single abandoned tank. 46. Israel has mounted three major offensives and dozens of smaller raids on Lebanon in reply to the pinpricks . 47. They may do a skin test, where you are given tiny pinpricks , or a blood test. 48. Then they go back to lives with a background drone of anxiety, with individual pinpricks of worry. 49. That capability has led to early-stage devices for measuring diabetics'blood sugar without repeated pinpricks . 50. To see, Pritchard must inject it with pinprick accuracy, threading in a tube encapsulating the microsyringe.