Word: corridorful
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...when they had got inside, found that there was nothing for them to do but stand fidgeting on a green carpet; Mr. Gatti-Casazza was busy. When at length an interpreter (for Mr. Gatti-Casazza understands English but slowly and speaks it more slowly still) led them down a corridor to his office, one reporter hung behind, then dashed to a window and peered down just in time to see the door of the big car close behind a dapper, short and quick-moving man in a derby...
...back to their starting point for the second time, the last clerk in the line slammed the office door in his face. "Texas" blasphemed, tried the door, finally fired through it. But the clerks had scattered. Then he broke out through another door and made his way through the corridor to the clerk's office again. One of them was sitting inoffensively at a desk. "Texas" glared at him, then shot him dead...
...unseeing night, a train steamed across the Polish Corridor* on its way from Berlin to East Prussia. Between the German town of Stargard and the Polish town of Dirschau, the engine ran off the tracks, the two front coaches telescoped, the remainder of the train, except the last two coaches, toppled over a 20-ft. embankment, 25 persons, including 12 women and 2 children, were killed, some 30 others were injured. The accident occurred in exactly the same place as a similar wreck...
...Poles conversely charged the accident to the Communists or the Germans who wish to point out the impossibility of maintaining the Polish corridor...
...accident in the Polish Corridor...