Word: compassing
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From then on, every main base of attack on Germany was manned, at least in part, by Western Allied air power. Harassed German defense commanders had to rearrange their thinning squadrons to meet new bombing attacks from every direction. Allied air power had bombed around the compass...
Boxing the compass: Stahmer is sold on Boston after paying out the lettuce on the season's longest ride in a hansom carriage-Co. 2 claiming Red Coach Grille as their own personal anchorage (this is NOT a paid advertisement)-The Katie Gibbs girls school threw a dance for some of the lads down at the Vendome. Speer, Clevenger, Coleman, Pugh and Clark were there sprawling their Southern selves all over the place. After having made friends with certain of the graders Sigety found his picture in the morning paper the other day as "honor man."-Strunke, running his blind...
...hacked a path through the jungles, Lieut. Stanley William Akers whistled. Two days before, he had bailed out of a crippled U.S. Army transport. Twice he had escaped from quicksands. Tomorrow, according to his compass calculations, he should reach an Allied base...
...under way," he cries gaily, rubbing his hands as the sail bloats to the breeze. "Where to?" someone asks. "Uh?" he says, searching their faces; "Doesn't anyone know?" But there is no compass...
...conceals his compass, steers not for Bermuda but for a German supply ship. And while everyone sleeps, he pushes overboard the man who catches him drinking from a concealed bottle of water. His apparently superhuman strength comes from this water and from energy tablets. In a burst of horror and rage his boatmates force him overboard, beat him under water. Rittenhouse delivers the coup de gráce-with the shoe from the amputated foot of the man the German saved...