Word: corridored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course, most of you know it already, but she's back. Helen is back from her vacation and so again the corridor will be lined with gaping young wolves from 0850 to 0859. Yes, war is hell...
...Corridor. Retiring president Engel did not like to retire. Toting his brief case, he looked back at his old office last week, said wistfully, "I've been walking up that corridor for 45 years, and I'm going to miss it." But as a Santa Fe director, Engel will cast his eye down Gurley's corridor for some time. President Gurley will need lots of help on postwar operations...
...bosses were very busy. Their work was done in the air-conditioned "Private Room H," reached by a dark corridor underneath the speaker's stand. In & out, all afternoon, went Hannegan, Kelly, Flynn, Walker, Hague & Co. Harry Truman stayed there for three hours, handshaking the delegates as the bosses brought them in. Inside, someone was always on the telephone, and whispered snatches of conversation floated to the door: "I think we got California in shape . . ." "Kelly said . . ." "At the New York caucus, they . . ." "Don't worry too much about Alabama. . . ." One of the most impressive lines, used with...
There was no room for Adachi to maneuver in the 7-mile-wide corridor of swamp and jungle. But anything was better than death by stagnation. So he lashed out to the west, hoping to drive the Americans from Aitape, 21 miles away. What they hoped to gain beyond that, with Americans dug in 600 miles to the west of them, only Adachi and the sun-god knew...
General De Gaulle, with a horde of reporters strung out after him, strode down the low, vaulted corridor to the room of 83-year-old General John Pershing. The conversation jerked along, via an interpreter...