Word: compassable
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...cold and silence of a New England winter forest is broken by the voices of a man and his two excited children. They pick their way along a meandering brook, pausing regularly to sweep aside branches or peer at compass and map. Near by, an elderly couple stride purposefully down a Jeep trail, jauntily swinging their arms and breathing deeply the crisp, fine air. Suddenly, a sweatsuit-clad figure crashes through the underbrush into a clearing. Panting from a hard run, mud dripping from his shoes, face scratched by brambles, he stares wildly about, then plunges into the thick brush...
...trick," says a top American orienteer, Peter Gagarin, "is to balance between speed and accuracy. You can be a terrifically fast runner, but that's no good at all if you can't find the checkpoints." Indeed, a small error in compass reading can land an orienteer dozens of yards away from−and make him unable to spot−a plastic punch dangling from a tree. Each punch makes a distinctive perforation in the hiker's punch card, indicating that he reached a particular checkpoint...
...starter says softly, and we tear up the trail at top speed, map in one hand, compass in the other. The trail goes dead north, then begins to curve east. Suddenly another trail appears, this one not marked on the map. We are tempted, but keep going. Another hundred meters and we pause, kneel down and take a compass bearing directly into the woods. Now we are sprinting, leaping over logs, crashing through small brush, legs and arms flailing. We try to pace a 200-meter leg but fail, losing the count at the bottom of a hill where...
...sent to a committee") and an estimated 970,38 enthusiastic members in 17,3 countries. They have dinners, annual meetings ("If you don't have anything to do, do it with style") and seminars ("Bureaucrats never change the course of the ship of state, they simply adjust the compass"), and occasionally present learned treatises among themselves ("On Capturing the Bold Spirit of Irresolution...
...have had in the past. Barber's book, The Presidential Character, codifies and explains the importance of presidential character in national leadership. Character is only one of five elements Barber cites (the others: world view, style, power situation, climate of expectations). But character is the crucial one, the compass setting for an Administration, often the element that tips the balance between success and failure...