Word: compartmentation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week prison officials put René and another prisoner into a tiny compartment in a type of prison van known as a "salad basket." With two armed guards sitting in the central aisle outside René's cell and another riding up front, the salad basket started off...
They were ready to accompany the President to a dedication ceremony at Arlington Cemetery. Luckily, Zimmerman had his Rolleiflex camera hanging around his neck. Most of the other photographers had stowed their equipment in the trunk compartment. When what sounded like "firecrackers" proved to be gunfire, Zimmerman hit the street...
In a bustling week for Britain's royal family, Princess Margaret paid her first official visit to Oxford, planted a tree and declared the Imperial Forestry Institute a going concern. A new car for Princess Elizabeth arrived, a dark green Daimler "consort" saloon model (price: ?1,690) complete with...
Down in the troop compartment housing Sam Jaskilka's Easy Company, the gunnery sergeant, big, bearded Bob Barnett, 29, was sounding off with final instructions: "You people are the leading company for the main assault of this operation . . ."
Thirty continuous hours in the air, ground out in the seconds, degrees and miles of a B-36 flight, mean packing aboard survival kits for the Arctic, life rafts for the ocean, 100 Ibs. of food* to be cooked in two tiny electric ovens-and endless time for minor irritations...