Word: compassions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soon a Polish army craft was on the fugitive's tail. By zigzagging through a cloud bank over the Baltic, the four managed to elude it, despite their slow speed (75 m.p.h.). They navigated by compass, without...
Monsarrat's story is "of one ocean, two ships, and about a hundred and fifty men." It begins late in 1939, when the corvette Compass Rose, "a fiddling bloody little gash-boat," is commissioned. A few halcyon runs, and then the U-boats come. On one ghastly trip to Gibraltar, a convoy of 21 merchantmen is reduced to seven-a slaughter with all too many counterparts in wartime reality...
Through '41 and '42, as the U-boats up their toll of Allied vessels, the Compass Rose rides dogged herd on its sheeplike formations, manages to bag one enemy sub. Then a night torpedo sends the corvette herself to the bottom. Only eleven of her officers and crew of 88, among them Captain Ericson and First Officer Lockhart, survive. These two, in the frigate Saltash, see the war against the U-boats shift from woefully inadequate defense to ruthlessly efficient pursuit...
Boxing the Compass. In Baltimore, after a judge told three brawlers he would dismiss charges if they got out of town, Defendant North went west, Easterly headed south, but Southern paid his fine and stayed...
Lord Rothermere's Conservative Daily Mail flatly said that MacArthur had been "badly supported" in Korea. "In the face of conflicting orders . . . from all points of the compass, what is he to do?" Lord Beaverbrook, once described admiringly by Winston Churchill as a "true, foulweather friend," took even stronger issue with the MacArthur-baiters. Said his Daily Express: "Whatever General MacArthur does is wrong ... If he refuses a truce to the Chinese Reds, that is bad. If he offers a truce, that is equally...