Word: corridored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their Dnieper salient, some 500,000 Germans were now in peril. Through Berdichev the Red Army hurried to choke off the salient's corridor to Poland and Rumania. By week's end General Vatutin's men were less than 65 miles from the pre-1939 Rumanian frontier. At Kirovograd and other points on the salient's rim the Red Army hacked off and trapped hunks of the enemy. The Wehrmacht had spent precious, dwindling reserves in the November-December counterdrive west of Kiev. Now the hard question facing Manstein was not whether he could hold...
...down the long corridor, off for a weekend at his Philadelphia home. "Just to dust off the family cobwebs...
Spang, Glunlc, Oomph. "And who wants to see Miss West?" says the switchboard operator of Los Angeles' Ravenswood Apartments, with an air of tired nobility. At the end of a somewhat musty sixth-floor corridor alight-coffee-colored, middle-aged maid opens Mae's door, and ushers visitors into the Venusberg...
...Krivoi Rog, the Wehrmacht continued its desperate, costly-and thus far successful-struggle to keep open an escape corridor for the forces still within the Dnieper bend...
...fiercest battles were fought near Krivoi Rog, in the heart of the Dnieper bend. This devastated iron center also protected a German escape corridor across the southern Ukraine. The capture of Krivoi Rog would culminate the lower Dnieper campaign, enabling the Red flood to roll southward, cut off perhaps a score of German divisions...