Word: compasses
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...Babcock is crouching over one promising timber in the Baker backyard, like a detective on the trail of colonial history. His blunt fingers run over the surface, ivory with age, tracing arcs and circles cut 300 years ago. "They didn't have rulers. They did everything by compass." Another beam reveals a row of auger holes, evidence of a hayrack. "Too low for horses," declares the Sherlock Holmes of barns. "Sheep, undoubtedly...
...He’s levelheaded, and he is one of those rare birds who has a strong moral compass,” Kellerman said...
...race, and the field is deep but without a clear favorite. Although John Paul personally selected all but three of the 117 voting Cardinals, don't expect a clone of the departed Pontiff. The outcome is often an expression of a pent-up desire to adjust the church's compass, however subtly. That said, the Italian members of the Sacred College had established, before the ascension of the Polish Karol Cardinal Wojtyla in 1978, a 456-year tradition of selecting from among themselves. Though the percentage of electors from Italy has plummeted from the 33% who helped elect John XXIII...
...unrestrained tactics have been vindicated with the evident failure of Maskhadov’s moderate approach; whereas Maskhadov’s conventional guerrilla tactics—even the occasional call for a peaceful solution—led him to ineffectual death in a hovel, Baseyef, operating without moral compass or any sense of restraint, continues to achieve spectacular “successes,” such as the Beslan triumph...
...It’s about the struggle for power and what it does to friendships,” Nye says of the book’s crux. “It shows what it’s like in Washington and the difficulty of keeping a moral compass...