Word: corridored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sore at Hitler. Presently, after chewing a fat cigar to tatters, he remarked to his assistants: "This is the damndest program I've ever heard. This guy Hitler is a slicker." Thereupon, he popped into his secretary's office, dictated a two-sentence statement, stomped down a corridor to the master control room of his key station KHJ. Thrusting his statement upon a startled announcer, he barked: "Read this and flip the button." Promptly over the Don Lee network went the following...
Willkie was not a leader in any sense that was politically recognizable. In fact, the delegates told each other, he was politically impossible, an amateur whose rankness you could smell. Nevertheless, they went to see him, and get a nearer sniff. His small 16th floor suite at a corridor's end in the Benjamin Franklin hotel became a crazy-house, a stifling welter of political amateurs and well-wishers (bond salesmen, debutantes, business bigwigs), gawkers (clubwomen, tourists, thrill-collectors), and disgusted professionals, indignant at their offhand treatment by people who had never heard of them and who even...
...family life of the Nation's First Familyman was in abeyance. For the last three weeks he has missed the evening movies in the big second-floor corridor in the White House. But he averaged three swims a week in the pool set between the Mansion and the Executive Offices...
When the Belgian surrender fatally exposed their left flank, the British, who were falling back from Arras-Cambrai to Lille, crossed the Lys River to Ypres and formed the east wall of an escape corridor along the Yser Canal to the sea. The flower of their Army, the proud Guards regiments-Coldstream, Grenadier, Welsh, Irish, Scots-had to let their line fold back from the southeast while their artillery and remaining armored units covered the rear...
Even between Amiens and Bapaume, where Weygand's rescuing Army had cut a few small nicks in the German corridor, the French were thrown. Then, incredibly, at 4 a.m. Tuesday morning, Leopold King of the Belgians-without consulting his Allies, against the counsel of his ministers-tossed in the sponge, ordered his army to lay down its arms. Premier Reynaud embittered, sarcastic, told his people by radio of the action "without precedent in history." Despite their King's order, he said, the Belgian Government would continue to function, would "raise a new army" to fight alongside the allies...