Word: polestar
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...manslaughter to risk their lives to further the mad schemes of a foreigner who was ready to die in the hope of making a great lord of himself." They planned to pitch him overboard at night as he fiddled with his quadrant, trying to take a reading of the polestar...
...then there's the effect on the U.S. For more than 40 years the U.S.S.R. was the Great Other, the polestar by which the U.S. charted its course in the world. Now, with the Soviet Union virtually out of business abroad and breaking up at home, American foreign policy faces an identity crisis. It won't be as spectacular as the one dominating the news these past two weeks, but its outcome will be just as important...