Word: compassion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tall, fair and skinny, was 47 years old, had won the D.S.O. for his part in the Bismarck affair. He gave a continuous running commentary of the action against the Bismarck over the public-address system for the benefit of the crew buried below. When a shell hit the compass platform beside him, killing or wounding nearly everyone. Captain Leach, though badly ruptured by the blast, continued his account until the Bismarck sank. He was hospitalized for some time, returned to the Prince of Wales in time for the Roosevelt-Churchill meeting...
...almost axiomatic that what Harold Laski writes is well worth reading, and his latest book is specifically addressed to the American college audience, as its sub-title "An Open Letter to American Youth" indicates. It is a small book, but it presents within a compass of 150 pages one of the most cogent and eloquent arguments for vital American concern with the war in Europe, and whole hearted support of the British war effort. Laski doesn't advocate an American expeditionary force, and he doesn't feel that such a force is at all necessary, but his plea...
...morning of Halloween, a grizzled old (73) French-Canadian prospector named Francois Xavier Gallant borrowed a friend's automobile, drove to Creighton (pop. 2,000), got busy with ax and compass. As the sun went down, he walked into the recorder's office, registered eight mining claims to 320 acres of land. Part of it was dotted with Creighton houses...
...over or whether she was settling. It was a matter of minutes before she started to move forward." The explosion broke the bridge's control of the engine room and steering apparatus, "but pretty soon we were able to steer from the second conning station. . . . We had no compass working and the helmsman steered by the flag-that is, he watched the flag to see which way the wind was blowing." Ensign Lyman and enlisted men tried to fire rockets, but two missed fire and they finally resorted to a Very pistol. Star shells burst to the south...
...skirted figures that had chanced to pass their way. And they all got out. And they al had shiny sabre-toothed hammers. They wore tennis shoes and old gray flannels and carried little black books. One, and he was their Leader, wore blue jeans and carried a compass, a battered sabre-toothed hammer, a battered black book and looked very wise. He led them out over the rocks...