Word: corridorful
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...task," explained General Leslie James ("Holy Terror'') Morshead, Commander of Tobruk, "is to drive a corridor from the perimeter [of our defenses] to the Axis road, which we hope to cut at El Duda. There we should meet the South Africans...
...hollow cavities in the bones of the lower forehead, the cheekbones, and the bones that lie behind the bridge of the nose. These bony caverns are called the frontal, maxillary or antrum, ethmoid and sphenoid sinuses. They open into each half of the nasal cavity, like rooms off a corridor. Each sinus is lined with delicate membranes, which are furred with tiny hairs (cilia) and covered with sheets of warm mucus...
...attackers carried on a systematic nine-day aerial and artillery bombardment so concentrated that no defense in the world could remain intact. It was designed to blast a corridor just a few hundred yards wide. When the corridor was opened, troops poured through, and the battle changed, the Germans said, from assault to pursuit. The Germans drove south and east...
...look like a solicitor, though. In fact, Vag decided that his closest counterpart was the bronze gentleman who sat on a marble pedestal in front of University Hall. His prepared speech beginning "I always send my laundry home . . ." died on his lips, and when the gentlemen turned towards the corridor and beckoned him to follow, he hurriedly reached for his coat. There was a curious whistling sensation in his ears, and suddenly he found that he was again facing John Harvard, for there was no doubt about it now, but on one wall of the narrow room hung a plaque...
Even without German infiltration, Iran had a poor chance of keeping her neutrality. The most strategic cross-corridor of Asia, Iran's mountains and deserts not only lie across the land route from Asia Minor to India but are the shortest road by which Britain could send supplies and men to the Russian Army - a road that has become vital since Hitler reached Russia's Black Sea ports...