Word: compartmentation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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As he reached for the door handle, a youth, apparently stationed as a lookout, fled from the front of the car. Dellera spotted a partner lying on the front seat, rifling the glove compartment. Quickly pinning him under the flexible front seat of the coupe, Dellera reached for his 30...
Emperor Hirohito, Son of Heaven, last week took his first airplane ride. Dressed in light blue with a red polka-dot tie, he sat diffidently through the flight in a curtained-off compartment opposite his little, moonfaced Empress Nagako and pored studiously over an airline map, nodding from time to...
Miller leaped out after her, caught her, knocked her down and dragged her back to the car. As he did so, she saw some horseback riders in the distance. She began to scream. Grappling with her, the man snarled, "If you ever try that again, I'll kill you...
In this case, the boredom is surprisingly unrelieved by the fact that Vittorio de Sica (Shoeshine, Bicycle Thief} is directing the crowd in the waiting room. Jennifer Jones is "a housewife from Philadelphia," a mother who has taken a brief vacation from marriage. Montgomery Clift is an Italian college...
The Proprieties. In Sydney, Australia, the New South Wales transport department issued 7,000 cut-rate streetcar and bus tickets for children, on each ticket printed the warning: "Do not smoke in a nonsmoking compartment."