Word: corridorful
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...Army offensive, many German "hedgehog" strong points had been overrun, but many had stood as outposts for a possible Nazi counter-drive. Among them had been Poznan, Torun, Schneidernühl, Arnswalde, Grudziadz, Breslau. Of these pockets of resistance, only two still stood this week: Grudziadz (on the Polish Corridor approaches to Danzig) and Breslau-and both appeared doomed...
...Evil. Thurber is as sensitively aware of the existence of evil -i.e., of stupidity and cowardice and self-love-as any American writer of his time. The knowledge pervades his lightest work; and in one small corner of his world, in such stories as The Cane in the Corridor and The Breaking Up of the Winship, evil unmasks itself in grim tragedy...
...creator of Flip Corkin, Terry, Pat, and the heralded Dragon Lady, may not realize the effect his oriental strip is having on the lives of many Chase luminaries. "Pass me my third Collins while I pass out" Smith (J.E. the folks call him) searched relentlessly up and down the corridor Saturday last but could not find "the lady." He did, however, find a tattered skivvie shirt sworn by him to be the property of "Hotshot Charlie...
...petered out, as some experts have blithely written. It is in a secondary stage. We have reacted as the enemy must have expected us to react and he is engaged in holding and trying to beat back our counterattacks. So far we have made little progress in closing his corridor behind him. He is keeping us busy elsewhere on the front and he doubtless made some shrewd calculations as to the reserves we could bring to bear. And if we fail to pinch off his corridor he may be expected to try to continue his drive to the west...
...contracting, but it was shrinking around a hard armored shell-in which he might be regrouping for another thrust at Liège, main Allied rear base for the Aachen-Cologne sector. The first heavy German blow in four days was an assault by three divisions on the Bastogne corridor...