bearings

• “First of all people, the word bearings is very much unrelated to age!”

  McCain defends his 'bearings'

• “No he didn't ... he meant exactly what the word "bearings" is defined as: direction or position relative to a fixed point.”

  Blitzer: Was Obama taking aim at McCain's age?

• “The latitude and longitude are mine, and the bearings from the oak ribs on the shoal to Lion's Head, and the cross-bearings from the points unnamable, I only know.”

  CHAPTER IX

• “February 15th, 2009 at 1: 24 am thomas fisher: Rush is probably getting his bearings from the Index of Economic Freedom (which Yglesias has talked about before) or Economic Freedom of the World, since Singapore and New Zealand both score rather well on those.”

  Matthew Yglesias » Limbaugh Reiterates Desire for Economy to Tank

• “He took hasty bearings from the trees in order to be sure of finding the bells again once the war was over.”

  BURIAL OF THE BELLS • by Sarah Hilary

• “You can say that you don't agree with what someone says but to say that they are losing there bearings is not right" Is this some kind of double standard?????”

  Kennedy says no to joint ticket

• “Can someone tell me how McCain's senior advisor would glean that McCain "losing his bearings" is talking about McCain's age?”

  Blitzer: Was Obama taking aim at McCain's age?

• “To lose one's bearings is not to suggest an age problem – it means that one has lost their way – and surely that is McCain in a nutshell ...”

  Blitzer: Was Obama taking aim at McCain's age?

• “To lose one's bearings is to be confused and sometimes to be senile is to be confused, and even other times being senile is to be confused about what losing one's bearings means.”

  Blitzer: Was Obama taking aim at McCain's age?

• “Ok ... so if we're going to say 'losing his bearings' is a reference to being old ... you gotta look at the meaning of it, and also the sentence relevance of it.”

  Blitzer: Was Obama taking aim at McCain's age?

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