Word: compassable
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...than 24 hr., trying to stay in "good water." His eyes dart with worry as the Cavalier passes points that were mapped with sailors' lives: Icy Cape, Skull Cliff, Deadman's Island. Legs braced, he peers at the radar as Second Mate Rod Doe, 22, calls out compass bearings. Haifa mile in front, another tug, Navigator, comes across shallow water and its tow chains drag along the bottom, kicking up swirling brown puffs of gravel and mud. Minutes later, when Cavalier's tow chains drag, the entire boat shudders and bucks like a horse suddenly reined tight...
...accident while you were on autopilot, you'd never be able to look at the water in your bathtub again." To the crew, the white-boxed computer, which winks out positions and readings from information beamed by a satellite, is a dunce. More often than not compass beats machine...
Catlin was no colorist. His drawing did not approach the swirling dynamism of a Remington; his technique could not compass the majestic grandeur that Bierstadt gave to the Rockies. Many of his figures were cursorily laid in, and many of his landscapes were studded with stylized hills that suggest haste rather than observation. But his candid style has an impact on the modern viewer that Remington's hyped-up romanticism no longer does. His so-called ineptness of drawing has been re-evaluated in the wake of the incisive simplicities of a Douanier Rousseau or even a John Kane...
...Special Envoy Philip Habib was still shuttling in the Middle East. At home, however, a honeymoon tolerance of the Administration's shaky start in foreign affairs was ending. Some barbed questions were being asked: Did Reagan really have any foreign policy? Did those globetrotters have any central policy compass to help them reach compatible goals...
...been tough enough the past few years for the Speaker to stay out in front of his rebellious Democrats. The party's ideological compass had begun to spin too wildly for an incorrigible New Dealer like O'Neill. Once Ronald Reagan hit town, the Speaker's troubles got a lot worse. Conservative Democrats viewed O'Neill as a big spender who was out of step with the new frugal mood. Liberals sniped openly that he had no heart left for the fight against the President...