Word: corridorful
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Then suddenly one of the patients picked up the record and smashed it on the floor; the volunteers were packing up to go back to Cambridge after three hours of hard but rewarding work, and the tensions of the patients were again coming to the surface. Soon the corridor would return to its usual state...
Stalin cut them down. "Throughout history," he said, "Poland has always been a corridor for attack on Russia ... It is not only a question of honor but of life and death for the Soviet State . . ." And it was not a question of magnanimity alone. The Curzon line, he explained pedantically (for he had learned his homework much better than the other two of the Big Three), had been "invented not by Russians but by foreigners ... by Curzon, Clemenceau and the Americans in 1918-1919." How could he be "less Russian than Curzon and Clemenceau...
...eddied around him, Clem Attlee chewed his pipe, taking it out of his mouth only to mutter: "Most embarrassing, most embarrassing." Attlee left it to his right-wing followers to tear Bevan down, and they did, though messily. "Why did you once take me for a walk down the corridor and say we must get rid of Mr. Attlee?" one woman M.P. demanded of Nye Bevan. "That's a wicked lie," Bevan shot back...
...Tiny El Salvador takes the traveler through rich coffee land on paved roads, and he crosses Honduras' corridor to the Pacific on good gravel. Nicaragua's part of the highway, looping here and there to touch at the various ranches of President Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza, is mostly macadam...
Doctor in the House (J. Arthur Rank; Republic) is a delightful example of formaldehyde humor, the kind of grisly, hospital-corridor hilarity that makes a patient wonder, in the darkness of the night, if that jovial doctor of his really understands that a man's only liver is a very serious organ...