Word: compartmentation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Washington Post last week printed a sensational report that started a great cackling among Washington newshens. According to the report, there is a secret list which Capitol Hill's 135 female reporters are supposed to keep of U.S. Senators and Representatives "to stay on the other side of...
He unfastened the fuselage plate of the radio compartment. Someone in the plane stuck his feet out. A man in the crowd yelled: "Look at those G.I. shoes!''
The current lion scare is due to the war. Hunters have been idle for lack of ammunition. So far the lions have eaten 15 blacks, one mulatto. Nothing so terrible had happened since a lion leaped into a train compartment, snatched a plump white man from among half a dozen...
Aviatrix Reitsch rode an empty explosive compartment, spying on the wings through a periscope. She found the trouble, was seriously injured after four days of such superwoman tests. For her pains: the Iron Cross, First Class.
We waited in our stuffy compartment-a middle-aged U.S. captain, a clean-cut colonel, Graham Barrow of Reuters and I-and were thoroughly miserable. Peddlers were hawking cucumbers, wheat cakes and tea to the Chinese soldiers jammed on flatcars and boxcars. Up front the tired locomotive leaked steam at...