Word: compassable
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...approach to racing is basically sane and even serious, but with an upper layer of humor. There was, for instance, the time he sent Rusty Gate out hopelessly for the Saratoga Cup and, instead of riding orders, gave Ted Atkinson a sandwich, a container of milk and a wrist compass, remarking he might be out a long time...
...York newspapers there was provocation for a Fascist coup . . . Prices fell . . ." But after the great day, Novelist Fast saw triumph at last for the Pink and Red press that plies its trade on the eastern seaboard. "Two big New York dailies, formerly reactionary, joined with the [New York] Compass, the National Guardian and the Daily Worker to call for a People's Convocation for Peace...
...husband, Ted Thackrey, onetime Post editor and now editor and publisher of the Redlined New York Compass, tried last week to get into the Post's act. The Compass picked up an attack on Winchell, recently run in a Manhattan monthly tabloid called Exposé, and billed it as "The Original Expose" on Winchell...
Comte leveled out on a compass course for Bloemfontein and nosed out of the cloud. He was flying in the open, but all around him were high fog and more clouds. Comte headed into the fog, flew through steady downdrafts until he broke out again at 6,000 ft., 70 miles from where he had started his high, wild ride. For an hour and a half he tried to get around the rain fronts that hemmed him in, but he was finally forced down at Vredefort, 150 miles from his destination...
...their crew set out on a leisurely sea trip back to St. Thomas. They headed south via the sheltered passages inside the Atlantic coastline. One morning last week, the ship chugged down Bogue Sound into the rough Atlantic, just off the North Carolina shore. The navigator set a compass course southeastward towards St. Thomas...