Word: corridored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sfax, Sousse, other Axis supply ports, Arnim exploded into a frenzy of activity, driving against French-held positions near Robaa and Kairouan below Tunis. His effort was to make room for Rommel to crawl in beside him and to divert Allied strength from the southern end of the Axis corridor. For a while his powerful tank attack looked as though it would develop into a full-scale offensive until Giraud's Frenchmen, supported by British and U.S. troops, stiffened and hung...
Russian trains loaded with food, clothing and fuel chugged across a nine-mile corridor of destruction into Leningrad last week. The corridor had once bristled with steel and concrete pillboxes; it had been manned by crack German troops. Now it was littered with German dead (13,000 by Russian accounts) and dead thousands of heroic Reds who had lifted the siege of Russia's second city...
Early last autumn the Red Army regained enough strength to try to free Leningrad. Under General Kiryl Meretskov an army crossed the Volkhov River, drove west against the German corridor running to Schlüsselberg, kept going until the corridor was narrowed to nine miles. On Jan. 11 General Meretskov resumed the offensive. Simultaneously another drive struck east out of Leningrad under Major General Leonid A. Govorov. When the two armies met, seven days later, Leningrad was free...
...figures that danced in the Treasury Secretary's mind. These were giddy abstractions which raced round and round without stopping, mathematical fictions multiplied to the nth power, soaring off into the eternity of lightyears, jerking out eyeballs like an endless corridor in a lobster nightmare...
...sell the Senate's waste paper and useless documents and turn the proceeds over to the Treasury. The job is the topmost pinnacle in the eyes of Capitol clerks, pages, policemen and other attaches. Their excitement over Jurney's possible end buzzed all week through cloakroom and corridor...