Word: compassion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rhumb-line distance to Bermuda is 635 miles, but since no sailing boat can sail the rhumb line exactly, the handicapping distance was 675. Finisterre took a starboard tack off Newport with a 163° compass course. In late evening the wind shifted to the southwest, and Mitchell's crew changed from a spinnaker to a balloon jib. As the small (38 ft. 8 in. overall) yawl left coastal waters, the crew took hourly water-temperature readings, knew they had entered the warm-water Gulf Stream when the thermometer rose to 78°. Navigation was difficult during the whole...
Said Mitchell; "We were in constant squalls in the Gulf Stream. About 11 on the third night the glass dropped, and the weather took on all the characteristics of a tropical lull. We were still 165° on the compass when I looked up and saw a squall going all the way across the sky. It looked like a mushroom atom cloud, low with a black stem. The scene was eerie, with the moon not shining but giving just enough light to see. The sea was pretty big, and I said, 'This looks like the worst squall...
...also fought shy of naming onetime Communist associates, while he admitted his own party membership from 1935 to 1949. Like Whitman, he did not claim the refuge of the Fifth Amendment to protect himself against selfincrimination. Peck, a onetime staffer of the now defunct Communist-line New York Compass, simply refused to answer, despite the subcommittee's repeated warnings that he was risking a contempt citation...
...Stevenson took more than the compass into account in picking his spots: he also made shrewd use of the political barometer. His choice of primaries offers a minimum of risk, yet gives him a chance to satisfy demands that he test himself at the polls. In Minnesota, he will have the almost unbeatable organization of Senator Hubert Humphrey going all-out for him; on his home ground in Illinois, he will be a favorite son; in Pennsylvania, the primary is made to order for organization control, and Stevenson has in his corner every state leader, including Governor George Leader, Pittsburgh...
Prince Tungi of Tonga believed that the little craft had struck an uncharted reef, capsized and righted herself. "Those aboard," he said, "must have clung to her sides for as long as they were able before the seas washed them away." Why, then, was her compass missing? And her log book? One diehard romanticist persisted in the belief that Dusty Miller had kidnaped his entire ship's company and whisked them away by lifeboat and raft to a desert island to live forever after, free of the perils of divorce courts and bill collectors...