Word: compass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...certainly not a professional historian, would dare to box the compass of Churchill's subject matter. His great grasp of the essential fact made him, in power, a master of decision and, in the hindsight of history, a master of the precis. Never has so much been contained in so few words. He begins the last volume of his History of the English-Speaking Peoples in 1815, leaving Waterloo (reluctantly, it would seem) behind him to take on the task of shaping the whole course of the British Empire and the American Republic in the last century into...
Missionary zeal once beat strong in Judaism; the Pharisees, said Jesus, would "compass sea and land to make one proselyte" (Matthew 23:15). This proselytizing urge vanished in the Diaspora, but the time may have come to compass land and sea again. So thinks Robert Gordis, professor of Bible at Manhattan's Jewish Theological Seminary and of religion at Columbia University...
From all points of the compass and most segments of the political and economic spectrum gathered an international Who's Who of high finance and high office. Through the Fairmont Hotel's marble-pillared lobby trooped old-line cartel capitalists and socialist bureaucrats, Japanese financial shoguns and silk-clad Burmese magnates. From London came financiers whose firms had bankrolled the Industrial Revolution; from Berlin, the brisk businessmen who have built Europe's sturdiest economy from the rubble of war. Fiat's Managing Director Vittorio Valleta flew in from Turin, the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s George Meany...
...yearned for the center of the stage. Ironically, Dylan's death freed her to indulge in his own kind of self-destructive self-expression. The character she re veals is a kind of Lilith raging with sexuality, jealous and mother-fierce as a tigress, and without a compass needle of discretion or direction in her head...
...airplane is usually drifting sideways under the influence of side winds, but the 67 determines the drift and allows for it. It notes the heading from the airplane's compass. Then a computer figures automatically the latitude and longitude, the ground traveled and the deviation, if any, from the planned course. This information is displayed on dials, and it can also be fed electrically into the airplane's controls...