Word: corridored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...COMINCH" corridor, on the second "deck" forward of the Navy Building in Washington, leads to the austere office of the fleet Commander in Chief, Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King. Down this formidable channel, one day recently, steamed Vice-Admiral Aubrey Fitch. He bore with him a topside-shaking plan...
...Japanese withdrew from their hard-won corridor through South China, the Chinese Army, cleaning up scattered resistance, cautiously advanced in their wake. Along a 180-mile front in Kwangsi Province, eager Chinese drew near to prizes they had lost a year ago-the air-base cities of Liuchow and Kweilin. This week TIME Correspondent Theodore H. White, first newsman to enter the recaptured corridor and "visit Nanning, radioed this report...
...trip to Nanning is good for the soul. The primary impression one gets in talking to people here is of the stupid, hollow nature of the great Japanese victories of 1944. Here in Nanning, at the core of the great continental corridor, lies exposed all the futility of what the Japanese tried...
...China, neglected elder theater of the war against Japan, that the enemy's decision was disclosed to the world. There, with revitalized Chinese armies pressing after them, Japanese forces retired from advanced positions in the all-important corridor linking Central China with Indo China - and points south. This was no mere local redisposition of troops : it meant that Japan had irrevocably written its Southeast Asia and South Seas empires off the books. Their sea lanes already cut by blockade, these areas were denied all hope of overland communications by the Jap withdrawal through Nanning...
...corridor leading to the secret shelter, the detectives found a charred note, in a woman's handwriting. It told her parents not to worry if they did not hear from her for a long while. The Soviet investigators thought that Eva Braun had written...