Word: compartmentalizes
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The Arlberg-Orient is one of the Continent's glamour trains, a storied track for international diplomats and international intrigue. Karpe had Compartment ll of the Bucharest sleeper. There were six other passengers in the car, including two friends, Secretary John Oliver Wright II, of the British legation in...
The big B-36 southbound from Alaska was on its last flight. Three of its engines were ablaze and it was settling fast. At 5,000 feet, Captain Harold L. Barry passed the order over the intercom: "Abandon ship." Then he cut in the automatic pilot. In the radio compartment...
"In the course of [my] work I began naturally to form bonds of personal friendship and I had to conceal from them my own thoughts. I used my Marxian philosophy to conceal my thoughts in two separate compartments. One side was the man I wanted to be. I could be...
"It appeared to me that I had become a free man because I succeeded-in the other compartment-in establishing myself completely independent of the surrounding forces of society.
Breakfast (after five police and customs visits) and the day light of a free country came in Venice. An Italian attendant cleaned up my compartment, clucked disapprovingly over its shortcomings. The dining-car tables were covered with gleaming napery. Opposite me, two fat Italians argued heatedly about the pleasures and...