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He’s even built a concrete fire shelter against a hillside with two steel escape doors and porthole windows.

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“What a beautiful view,” Shepherd told the command center as he looked out the tiny porthole of his capsule, flying high enough to see the Earth’s curve.

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It also had two watertight hatches for entering and leaving the vessel, one at the front and another at the rear, and two short conning towers equipped with small portholes.

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The cramped cabin had three small portholes, radio equipment, and instrument panels.

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An officer inside emerged from a porthole at the top of the vehicle and trained a rifle on the passengers inside the big rig.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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