Word: compassing
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...Compass blasts at him with hymns of hate...
Sailing through the dead of winter, the Miru was battered by fierce storms, 4O-ft. waves and 75-m.p.h. winds. Water and weather carried away three sea anchors, washed a compass overboard, smashed the rigging, damaged the engine and soaked the cabins. Thinking of his family, Dr. Davis was tempted to turn back. But then he thought of his seafaring ancestors, who sailed these waters in canoes centuries ago. and decided to push...
...substance said the same things about him? McCarthy: "I decided that sooner or later one of these left-wing smear articles would go so far that we'd have to teach them a lesson. Your paper went even further than the [Communist] Daily Worker or [Manhattan's] Compass...
...Kobiankari, Russian Georgia, and greets the Statue of Liberty with the only English words he knows: "How are you?"; 2) George shyly courts an American court stenographer*(Kim Hunter), and follows her to California in a motor caravan of fellow Georgians piloted by an ex-sea captain with a compass; 3) George winds up with both Kim and a California orange grove, proud to own a piece of "United States in America," where, as he puts it, "anything, anything at all, can happen...
...California's Fortnight magazine and a militant antiCommunist, named 16 others as members of the party's Newspaper Unit No. 140 during the same period. Among them: Tom O'Connor,* later a writer on Manhattan's PM and now managing editor of its successor, the Compass; Charles Daggett, onetime pressagent for James Roosevelt and now a movie publicity man; Philip M. Connelly, Los Angeles Herald-Express reporter who later became state C.I.O. president and is now one of the fifteen California Communist leaders awaiting trial on charges of conspiracy under the Smith Act. Judson said...