Word: corridorful
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...morning when Weygand flew over he could see the Germans with motorized divisions on their flanks sweeping westward in a corridor between the isolated Allied Armies and Paris. German tank units were already raising havoc with Allied communications along the seacoast. Behind them German infantry and artillery divisions dropped off to strengthen the sides of the corridor. Already Reichenau (who was at the centre in Poland and performed the final closing of the bloody envelopment of Kutno) was driving on Lille. Küchler (who commanded the German left in the Polish massacre) was pressing through Ghent...
...inevitable end was in sight unless little Generalissimo Weygand could stage a successful counterattack from the south across the Somme east of Amiens. If Weygand could cut through the corridor, the Germans who had pushed to the sea would themselves be isolated. But every day, every hour made stronger the coil of power through which this counterattack must pierce, from Amiens to Cambrai and Valenciennes. Before mounting and launching his attack, Generalissimo Weygand had to reconstruct his battle line on a 175-mile front from Montmédy to the Channel, for the troops whose job it had been...
...Liberator of His Fatherland" (because he was born in what became the Polish Corridor). His crossing of the Brahe in the Corridor caused the destruction of three Polish divisions and a cavalry brigade east of that river, but the Allies estimated him chiefly from his textbook Look Out, Tanks! (1939), which summarized his basic tactical principle with superb triteness: "It is important to penetrate swiftly and deeply into enemy positions with a great number of tanks...
...squadrons who were downcast by the cavalry's motorization. The soldiers of his division called him "The Old Man" for his paternalism. When September 1 came last year, the 21st Army Corps fought for him like fearless robots to take Graudenz, Poland's corner-pillar in the Corridor...
...critics had taken off their hats. That film was about Munich and the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia. It had looked like war then, but war had not come. This time Director Kline was sure war was coming. He was even sure where it would come first-in the Polish Corridor...