Word: corridorful
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CAIRO--The British Eighth Army was believed setting up tonight a big pincers movement on El Agheila, designed to clamp down on German Marshal Erwin Rommels shattered forces from both west and east when and if they attempt a stand in the narrow corridor there...
...Personnel are cautioned not to become panic-stricken by the great expanses of corridor (of which the Pentagon has 8 miles). Rumors concerning lost safaris in the Pentagon are hereby discounted, inasmuch as all but one of these safaris have been located and rescued. . . . Trained search parties will be on duty, and all corridor intersections will be patrolled at least once every two days...
This was Grouser's fifth managerial report--one low pass and three unsatisfactories so far. As he walked along the Grey corridor in the basement of Morgan Hall, he knew that this time was going to be different. He could anticipate the thrill of achievement as he opened his report and saw "Distinction" written in a bold feminine hand: The cage of Morgan 3 loomed up before him. "3255" he whispered, to one of the girls who always seemed as if she were handing out death notices instead of reports and exams...
...Chiangs' firsthand accounts of possibilities, a party of industrialists and engineers left on a survey trip. The Executive Yüan announced an appropriation of $100,000,000 (at the rate of $10,000,000 a year) for irrigation projects in Kansu and its jutting panhandle corridor between Mongolia and Tibet...
...Fleet last week were still harassing Axis ships in the Gulf of Finland. On the Karelian Isthmus Russian soldiers were still holding off Finnish assaults. Leeb's armies, which once had plunged 125 miles east, now had been pushed back 100 miles and were holding a corridor only eight miles wide stretching north to Lake Ladoga (see map). Against both sides of the corridor the Russians were pressing hard...