Word: compassion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When the lifeboat hits the water, a radio operator in the aircraft starts the boat's engine by remote control, then steers it toward the rafts or swimmers. Once on board, the survivors can talk with the plane over a two-way radio. The operator sets their gyro compass on a course that will take them to the nearest land. The boat has fuel for 800 miles; more fuel and water can be dropped. Early in 1952, says the Air Force, all its A-3 lifeboats will be equipped as radio-controlled taxis...
...these inner relationships, the bursting of stem and branches from this 'World-Seed' resolved the whole conception into a treelike form, suggesting continuing growth. Thus, this piece is really a 'World-Tree,' its four branches reaching to the four main points of the compass, its trunk in the earth and its extremities still growing, unconcluded, in space. It is related also to those objects in our modern landscape, like antennae, which make the quickest communication with all points of the earth; and it is based on the steel technology of our time as surely as were...
...York editors considered the AP story good enough to run it the next morning, although it was by then more than two days old. Only one left in "purportedly;" it was the "Daily Compass," a newspaper usually far less conservative...
Austin thus functions in a tightly controlled compass. His effectiveness depends largely on the effectiveness of U.S. foreign policy. When that policy emerged clear and firm, as it did during the North Korean invasion last summer and during last week's debate over the moral condemnation of Red China (see above), Austin's performance was eloquent and forceful. When policy seemingly vacillated, as earlier this month in Washington's order for its U.N. delegation to approve an appeasing petition to Peking, Austin's hand appeared palsied...
Jessamyn West's first novel has a homespun beginning, but a rough trail lies ahead. As she showed in The Friendly Persuasion (TIME, Feb. 18, 1946), Author West can take a graceful path with a short story. This time she sets her compass for some 400 pages of turn-of-the-century ironic tragedy and mires down...