Word: corridored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hurry, Hurry!" Our train chuffed into Pengpu, 100 miles above Nanking, at dusk after a seven-hour trip. All along the steel corridor-single track except for station sidings-military traffic flowed heavily. Every railside town and village crawled with soldiers. Dumps of rice and munitions crowded rail platforms and yards. Bridges bristled with mudbrick pillboxes, defensive moats and brushworks...
Jerry N. Liebman '50, and his friends will go to Mexico this summer to find a soldier named Fernaudez. They will look across crumbling patios and down windswept corridor in the lonely hours of morning--for it is in these times that Fernandez is soon, riding on horseback...
History in the Making. Meanwhile, in Tel Aviv, Israel's Premier David Ben-Gurion stepped up colonization schedules for the Jerusalem corridor and the Negeb, planned to settle 5,000 to 10,000 Jews in the southern desert within the next three years. Within two months, he announced, several hundred Jewish pioneers would move into Beersheba to make it a Jewish town. He also announced that Israeli representatives were holding secret talks with leaders of two Arab nations (probably Lebanon and Egypt...
Outside, like a stiffly starched nurse in a hospital corridor, a police car drove up to the cheering crowds. "Ladies and gentlemen," admonished a loudspeaker, "it is requested from the palace that we have a little quietness, if you please. The Princess is trying to sleep...
...frenzy first took the form of running himself ragged for the New Deal (he began to work as FERA administrator while his desk was still out in the corridor, spent $5,000,000 in his first day). When F.D.R. made him Secretary of Commerce, it was to groom him for the presidency...