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Word: compassion (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stone had a long and distinguished career on the great liberal dailies of the '30's and '40's. He was an editorial writer with Walter Lippmann on The New York Post, a columnist for PM and The New York Daily Compass, and the author of a number of books, including one on the birth of Israel for which he entered the pipeline of illegal Jewish refugees seeking entrance to Palestine and was imprisoned in a British detention camp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: I.F. Stone's (Bi) Weekly | 12/13/1971 | See Source »

...result of his defection, Stone found himself unprintable when The Compass folded in 1953. His colleagues had made their peace with the new American anti-communist line, compromised with McCarthyism and set about their job of ignoring the obvious and swallowing the spurious. There was no room in American journalism for a famous reporter who did not believe that truth changed with every committee hearing or State Department White Paper. Stone refused to be silenced: he took his $3500 severance pay and a Compass subscription list and set about creating a one-man weekly, with his wife, Esther...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: I.F. Stone's (Bi) Weekly | 12/13/1971 | See Source »

...cadence-slow, methodical, studied. Says Gene Letourneau, a friend who sometimes hunts birds with him in Maine: "When Ed goes out in the woods, he is just as cautious as when he makes a big political decision. He wants to know where he's going. He always has the compass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Muskie: The Longest Journey Begins | 9/13/1971 | See Source »

Hollywood usually gets its bearings from the weather vane rather than the compass. Since the wind has been blowing chilly from Indochina, a new movie or two have gingerly and unconvincingly suggested that America's flaws are innate rapacity and violence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Kicking the Habit | 5/3/1971 | See Source »

...private-airplane pilots and snowmobilers, a company named Relevant Products Inc. of Louisville has come up with the Safe-T-Cell, a compact 2-lb. super-first-aid kit. Crammed into a sturdy polyethylene cylinder are tourniquets, bandages, antiseptics, adhesive tape, aspirin, rescue blanket, waterproof matches, nylon cord, a compass and even chocolate. Marine, aircraft and camper versions sell for $13.95; a more elaborate marine model, which also contains a mouth-to-mouth resuscitator, goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Not So Roughing It | 4/12/1971 | See Source »

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