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Word: compartmentalizes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Air bags are designed to inflate on impact in any crash at a speed of 12 m.p.h. or more, filling a car's front passenger compartment to hold the driver and passengers in their seats, then deflate in seconds after the impact is over. The Department of Transportation wants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAFETY: A No to Belts and Bags | 9/2/1974 | See Source »

THE NIGHT of the motorcycle ride Kenny invited me to a spare rib barbeque at Rick Stacy's trailer just up the dirt road from his place. Somebody had collected a big baggie full of mushrooms from the fields, and they were tucked in the glove compartment of an abandoned...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: A Midnight Rider and the Flyin' Florida Omelet | 4/22/1974 | See Source »

After weeks of investigation, French and U.S. officials believe that they have pinned down the cause of history's worst air disaster: the March 3 crash of a Turkish Airlines DC-10 just outside Paris that killed 346 people. An improperly sealed rear cargo door burst open in midair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCANDALS: The Great DC-10 Mystery | 4/8/1974 | See Source »

The recall is doubly irritating for Chrysler because the part causing the trouble was modified on the assembly line at the insistence of the EPA in the first place. The part, designed by Chrysler engineers, is a sensor containing a ball of wax that softens when engine temperature rises to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOMOBILES: The Wax-Ball Recall | 3/18/1974 | See Source »

In a desperate degrading of her memory, James had made love to a fat tart "with the face of a baby doll" night after night in the private compartment next to his dead mother. At the end of the journey, he was too drunk even to attend her funeral. As...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: O'Neill Agonistes | 1/14/1974 | See Source »

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