Word: compassable
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When the pilot has slowed to about Mach 1 below 100,000 ft., he needs protection not from heat but from cold. He also needs oxygen, and when his low-altitude parachute has opened and he has settled safely to earth, he may need a compass, map, food and other survival supplies. He will not be easy to find: his initial speed will have carried him 250 miles horizontally from the point where he left his airplane...
After a year of testing designs on bunting, planes, tanks, shoulder patches and letterheads, NATO last week adopted an official flag. Color: navy blue and white. Officially, the flag is said to be "a four pointed star representing the compass that keeps us on the right road-the path of peace-and a circle representing the unity that binds together the 14 countries." But NATO Secretary General Lord Ismay of Britain was much less high flown in approving the design. "It is," said he, "simple and inoffensive...
Peering downward, LaPointe noted a "funny mountain which looked rusty and nearly dark blue." Awatter, watching the instruments, gave an exclamation. The magnetic compass had swung 90 degrees as the plane neared the mountain. "The needle is crazy," said Awatter. LaPointe took the controls and circled the mountain, but the compass steadied down. Awatter and LaPointe agreed not to mention the incident to anyone else...
...impressive in picturing the danger and frustration of the corvette's task. With several delicate director's touches The Cruel Sea communicates the breathless silence of perilous halts in mid-ocean for rescues or repairs, and there are two scenes remarkable for stark visual impact-the sinking of H.M.S. Compass Rose, and the running down of floating survivors in a vain attempt to destroy a U-boat. Impressive also is the film's attention to detail; the viewer becomes completely familiar with the Compass Rose, the radar screen on the bridge, the pistons in the engine room, and he begins...
...stand some mellowing. By his own count, he had killed more than 100 men in his 45 years. As a boy of nine in a northern village where his army-officer father was stationed, he began his life work by stabbing a schoolmate with the sharp point of a compass. Released from prison at 15, he joined the army, and was working in a road gang when an officer kicked him for not saluting. El Sapo killed the man with a dagger and was sentenced to be shot, but got a reduced sentence and was later pardoned. After that...